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mvwcnews:
Battery Equipment & Supply Co was advertising heavily in the early 1920s including the TERMINAL TONGS.  Their 1924 trademark filing gave July 1920 as start of use of  BESCO.

Bill Houghton:

--- Quote from: Northwoods on February 22, 2020, 09:00:47 AM ---Don't leave out the VW Bugs.  Under the back seat, passenger side.
And the old vans' batteries were hard to get to, as was everything else back there.

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As long as you kept the cover on the battery, the bug battery wasn't bad; and they lasted a long time, not being exposed to engine compartment heat.

The vans with the original doghouse-style motor - well, different story.  Keeping the acid topped up on those was nearly impossible, if you didn't have the special factory auto-shutoff water bottle.

bird:

--- Quote from: Bill Houghton on November 30, 2015, 07:48:32 PM ---
--- Quote from: Aunt Phil on November 17, 2015, 10:04:21 PM ---
--- Quote from: Papaw on November 17, 2015, 09:49:32 PM ---The battery in my old MGA was under the miniscule rear floorboard.

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A model had a pair of 6 volt batterys, 1 behind each seat bulkhead with the driveshaft between them.
That red piece of sheet metal wasn't a floorboard, it was the battery cover, and the compartment above was storage for the convertible top.

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If I remember right, Triumph TR-3s had that arrangement.  I always wondered how many times the cable wound up on top of the driveshaft, slowly wearing through until the copper was in contact with the shaft.  Or, conversely, how exciting things got if the U-joint failed catastrophically and broke loose - battery acid everywhere.

Not that parts on British cars ever fail.

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