{{Short description|British battery company}} {{other uses|Chloride (disambiguation)}} thumb|Chloride Electrical Storage Co. Logo '''Chloride Electrical Storage Company''' was a British company that manufactures and sells storage batteries. The company has approximately 35 subsidiary companies in the UK, several being dormant, most are wholly owned and some 22 subsidiary and associated companies in overseas countries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hersteller_detail.cfm?company_id=9859|title = Chloride Electrical Storage Company LTD; London manufacturer}}</ref>
==Early history== The company was originally registered as Chloride Electrical Storage Syndicate on 12 December 1891.<ref name="Pdf">{{Cite web |url=http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/rep_pub/reports/1960_1969/fulltext/025c04.pdf |title=Chloride Electrical Storage Company |access-date=2009-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506185143/http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/rep_pub/reports/1960_1969/fulltext/025c04.pdf |archive-date=2009-05-06 |url-status=usurped }}</ref> It was formed in a deal between the Electric Storage Battery Company (E.S.B. Co.) of New Jersey, and the United Gas Improvement Company based in Pennsylvania and John A. E. Hickson to expand outside the USA using patents and "applications" assigned by the parent companies. It was reconstituted as the Chloride Electrical Storage Company in 1902.<ref name="Pdf"/>
==Products== Until 1914–1918 most of the demand was for large stationary batteries used in early generating stations and for domestic lighting installations.<ref name="Pdf"/> New and growing demand came for batteries on submarines, and after the First World War, the company's batteries were in growing demand for use in train lighting, motor vehicles and as accumulators for valve radio receiving sets.<ref name="Pdf"/>
thumb|London Transport RT Bus with Exide Advertisements
==Acquisitions== The company made acquisitions of alkaline battery and lead-acid battery manufacturing companies{{which|date=April 2013}} and became a supplier of automotive and traction batteries.<ref name="Pdf"/>
The company acquired two of its moulded battery casings suppliers, Lorival in 1927 and United Ebonite Manufacturers in 1934, merging them in 1939, to form a new subsidiary United Ebonite & Lorival Ltd.
==Customers== The company supplied Indian Railways, Ford, Rolls-Royce and Vauxhall. Demand increased during the Second World War.<ref name="Pdf"/> <!--- The company was purchased and reincorporated as Associated Battery Makers (Eastern) on 31 January 1947 and became Chloride India Ltd on 2 August 1972, before becoming Exide Industries on 25 August 1995. (Different company?)--->
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==External links== * [http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Chloride_Electrical_Storage_Co "Chloride Electrical Storage Co - Graces Guide"]. ''www.gracesguide.co.uk''. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
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Category:Battery manufacturers Category:Manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1891 Category:British companies established in 1891 Category:Companies based in Manchester