Hamilton Standard aircraft propellers on assembly line, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation
View of Hamilton Standard aircraft propellers on assembly line at the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation. Label on back: "Adaptation of the automotive production line technique to the production of American aircraft and aircraft parts means more bad news for the Axis. Here is a scene in a Midwest propeller factory, where Nash-Kelvinator, former automobile and refrigerator manufacturer, is turning out huge Hamilton Standard propellers for war planes on a mass production basis. Shown are big variable-pitch propeller blades, moving along conveyor lines under progressive-assembly methods reminiscent of high-speed automobile production. Press Bureau, Nash-Kelvinator Corp, Detroit, July 1, 1942. (Approved by U.S. Army for release)." Handwritten on back: "Aircraft propellers."
- Resource ID:
- na032492
- Subject:
- Propellers, Aerial
- Nash-Kelvinator Corporation
- United Aircraft Corporation. Hamilton Standard Division
- Automotive Council for War Production--Archives
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- 1942-07-01
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
- Department:
- National Automotive History Collection
- Location:
- MS84/Automotive Council for War Production, Aircraft propellers, 85:12
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.