Hemmings Motor News: Nash-onal Pride
The firm would enjoy its greatest World War II success building the triple-bladed Hamilton Standard propellers, which were first designed and built in Britain. The variable-pitch units were highly efficient in terms of extending aircraft range, and by 1945, Nash-Kelvinator had churned out 158,134 of the propellers, along with 290,262 Hamilton Standard propeller governors. The total list of Nash's war production, however, boasted incredible variety, including more than 204,000 rocket motors, and more than 650,000 bomb fuses, plus innumerable small vehicle components for everything from Jeeps to Navy submarines.
