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8 ULLETIN PuMiihed by LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION, INC. 292 Madison Avenuo, Now York, N. Y. 10017 UU.RTIN ID. 169 January 25, 1967 LXA WELCOMES A NSW MEMBEF. -- The General. Battery and Ceramic Corporation, Box 1262, Reading, Pennsylvania 1906JJ General Battery`a principal in terest in lead is in industrial and automotive lead-acid batteries. ELECTRIC SM3G is the intriguing headline of an editorial comment in the December 8, 1966, edition of Machine Design. hinting that same of the cures proposed for eliminating:1 hydrocarbons from auto exhausts may be worse than the disease itself. The reason is that, according to the major automakers, some of the new battery designs being touted are capable of giving off harm ful fumes, too. In fact, this edition also carries the story of the hydra zine-air1 fuel cell now under test in a 3/4 ton truck by the Army Mobility Equipment Coranand, Fort Balvoir, Virginia, and quotes the press officer, a Colonel Frank Milner, as cautioning the viewers to note a distinct odor of ammonia. ''This," he said, "is because hydrazine is made from ammonia and naturally emails like it. Sines, this vehicle is strictly research, we hare not worried about these vapors or tried manifolding the exhaust..." BATTERY nBTBTf)Pm WHTCH REPORTED!! CAM POWER AOTO AT STANDARD SPEED. is news item in November 23 edition of Electrical World magazine. The piece quotes Dr. Morris ELsenberg, of Eieetrochifflica Corp., Menlo Park, Calif., as saying that the battery can power a moderate alee American car at speeds up to 70 sg>h, for 160 to 170 miles. Principal drawback is that the battery cannot be recharged enough times to be practical -- only about 30 or 40 J times. The battery usee lithium anodes in an electrolyte composed of "organic solvent." DIDUSTBIAI. TRtCK FORECAST -- Material Handling Biginearlng magazine regularly carries a forecast of business in its January issue. Regularly, too, they call cm LIA for its view. In a short by-lined appraisal, Dave Borcina made these points shout lead-acid battery powered material handling trucks: Item: Use of lead-acid battery power in this area doubled between 1961 and 1966. Item: In the long-term view, lead-acid industrial battery sales have grown at a higher rate than the Gross National Product. Item: The phe nomenal growth of the past 5 years will probably taper down to about 10 per cent per year. Item: Newer exotic battery types now in the headlines are probably several years in the future for industrial use. PN,c^Js N11474