[LB050576A], Letter from Alfred Ord Tate to Edison General Electric Co, William Edgar Gilmore, August 10th, 1891
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August 10, 1891. W.H. Gilmore, Esq., Assistant Manager, Edison General Electric Co., Schenectady Works, Schenectady, N.Y. Dear Sir:-- In reply to your letter of 8th inst. I beg to say on the 8th of June last Mr. Insull handed me a letter addressed to him by Mr. Kreusi in which was described a motor which ran at 2500 revolutions, 2-1/2 volts, 15 amperes, which presume is the same as the one referred to in your communication. A motor of 15 amperes is too heavy for a primary battery because it exhausts it too rapidly. It would be much better to have a motor wound for 5 volts and 7 amperes, which would of course give the same result running at the same speed. We require a motor of this kind for operating sewing machines. Would it not be a good idea for you to send one of these motors to our factory at Silver Lake where we have a sewing machine which we have been using for testing purposes, and let us obtain some data which afterwards we could [illegible] to you and which will be very useful information for your [illegible]. We could complete the task within two days [illegible] of the motor at the works, so that there would not be very much delay, Yours very truly, A.O. Tate You can express the motor if my suggestion is favored to Edison Manufacturing Co. Orange N.J. [illegible] know how many when it goes forward