Lincon Batteries to the rescue for TV classic car restoration

Handmade Morris Minor battery for Quest TV

We were thrilled when we were contacted last year by the media company behind ‘Salvage Hunters; Classic Cars’ to see if we could assist them with a classic car battery for a 1970’s Morris Minor van which they were restor ...

Winter Battery Care

It’s that time of year again when we should be paying extra special attention to the ‘health’ of our vehicles, so we have put together a list of useful tips to help take care of your battery and your vehicle..

A battery is designed to work at an optimum temperature of around 25ºC and when the temperature falls to around freezing, the battery’s capac ...

WINTER BATTERY TIPS

Cold weather can take its toll on your car’s battery – Cold weather inhibits the chemical reaction necessary to make a battery work, which is often the reason you may have trouble starting your car on a cold winter morning! Cold weather together with a lack of car usage, especially over the festive period, every year leads to high numbers of assistance call outs. ...

Here at Shield we operate a trade delivery service from each of our battery centres across the UK

We are settling in nicely at our new North West battery centre home in Leigh and the place is looking great! Huge thanks to the guys at In2 Signs Graphics & Display in Leigh for our new signage.

Our Manchester city centre battery centre has now closed & ...

Here at Shield we operate a trade delivery service from each of our battery centres across the UK

We are delighted to have just taken delivery of our latest addition to our Delivery Van Fleet, it’s a smart Renault Traffic van which has been beautifully sign-written by local signwriters Absolute UK Signs.

Our newest addition is off to our Poole battery centre ...

Winter Survival Battery Tips

It’s that time of year again when we should be paying extra special attention to the ‘health’ of our vehicles, so we have put together a list of useful tips to help take care of your battery and your vehicle..

A battery is designed to work at an optimum temperature of around 25ºC and when the temperature falls to around freezing, the batter ...

Shield increases its fleet of delivery vans.

We were delighted to take delivery of our shiny new Renault Traffic delivery van last week, which can now be found somewhere in the Manchester area delivering our batteries.

Huge thanks to our friends over at Absolute UK Signs Ltd for another great Sign-Writing job on our new delivery van for our Manchester Depot.

Check your vehicle is Winter Ready!

We know what you are thinking ‘Where has the year gone’……us too!

It’s time for log fires, spooky visitors, cosy nights in, sparklers & fireworks, hot chocolate, or maybe a good glass of red and of course, time to tuck up your Classic car for the winter – or check your ‘daily’ vehicle is winter ready!!

Here at Shield we h ...

Ferrari 330 GTC 1967 Pininfarina

We were delighted to hear from our customer Thomas from California USA when he needed a replacement battery for his rather stunning 1967 Ferrari 330GTC Pininfarina.

Thomas was looking for the ultimate classic hard rubber battery, matching the original manufacturers specification. Our Shield Classic 241/13 gives the correct period look to his prid ...