Installation for producing both AGM and wet-cell batteries for passenger-car and commercial-vehicle battery types, consisting of a centrally arranged rotatably mounted transport apparatus for transporting the clamping cartridges which are fitted with the battery plates to be processed, with a lifting and/or rotating apparatus to the individual processing stations of the installation, such as - the feed station with gripper systems (1.1) on the transport apparatuses for feeding and discharging the battery plate packs to the clamping cartridges with lug-aligning and lug-bending apparatus, - the heatable tin bath with fluxing agent wetting apparatus and drying device, - the lead bath station with lead melting pot (3.1), and - the boxing station with gripper systems (4.1) for removing the battery plate packs from the individually designable clamping cartridges and feeding and boxing thereof in the battery cases, and a central control apparatus, characterized - in that two heatable and movable lead bath carriages (3.2, 3.3) are arranged such that they can be allocated at the lead bath station at the stationary lead melting pot (3.1) for hot lead bath changing, of which one of the two carriages contains the second lead bath, a pumping/suction apparatus (3.4) with lifting function which serves for lead bath changing being arranged on both carriages (3.2, 3.3), and both the pumping/suction apparatus (3.4) and the pivot axis (3.5) which is arranged fixedly on the carriage being arranged such that they can be pivoted in each case separately about the rotational axis and about the rotational axis, respectively, and the pumping/suction apparatus (3.4) being connected in a positionally changeable manner by way of an upper pump outlet pipe (3.4.2) and a suction pipe (3.4.1) which is arranged in the lower region of the pump via a connecting axis (3.6) with lifting apparatus (3.7) to the fixedly arranged pivot axis (3.5) of the carriage (3.2, 3.3), - in that the gripper system (4.1) is at the same time equipped with a separately actuable filling mechanism, and - in that the clamping cartridge has at least one dimensioning insert (6.1) in order to receive battery plate packs dimensioned with different sizes and shapes, and - in that the control unit is equipped with the necessary processing sequence programs for the various battery plate types. - the feed station with gripper systems (1.1) on the transport apparatuses for feeding and discharging the battery plate packs to the clamping cartridges with lug-aligning and lug-bending apparatus, - the heatable tin bath with fluxing agent wetting apparatus and drying device, - the lead bath station with lead melting pot (3.1), and - the boxing station with gripper systems (4.1) for removing the battery plate packs from the individually designable clamping cartridges and feeding and boxing thereof in the battery cases, - in that two heatable and movable lead bath carriages (3.2, 3.3) are arranged such that they can be allocated at the lead bath station at the stationary lead melting pot (3.1) for hot lead bath changing, of which one of the two carriages contains the second lead bath, a pumping/suction apparatus (3.4) with lifting function which serves for lead bath changing being arranged on both carriages (3.2, 3.3), and both the pumping/suction apparatus (3.4) and the pivot axis (3.5) which is arranged fixedly on the carriage being arranged such that they can be pivoted in each case separately about the rotational axis and about the rotational axis, respectively, and the pumping/suction apparatus (3.4) being connected in a positionally changeable manner by way of an upper pump outlet pipe (3.4.2) and a suction pipe (3.4.1) which is arranged in the lower region of the pump via a connecting axis (3.6) with lifting apparatus (3.7) to the fixedly arranged pivot axis (3.5) of the carriage (3.2, 3.3), - in that the gripper system (4.1) is at the same time equipped with a separately actuable filling mechanism, and - in that the clamping cartridge has at least one dimensioning insert (6.1) in order to receive battery plate packs dimensioned with different sizes and shapes, and - in that the control unit is equipped with the necessary processing sequence programs for the various battery plate types.