Editing Nash-Kelvinator (section)

==History==
The founder of Nash Motors, [[Charles W. Nash]], now serving as chair of the board, wanted [[George W. Mason]] for his expertise as a production engineer for several car manufacturers before being appointed president of Kelvinator in 1928.<ref name="DetroitHistory">{{cite web| url= https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/kelvinator-corporation |title=Encyclopedia of Detroit: Kelvinator Corporation |work=Detroit Historical Society |date=2023 |access-date=22 April 2023}}</ref> To have Mason, Nash had to buy Kelvinator, a leading manufacturer of refrigerators.<ref>{{cite book|last=Adler |first=Dennis |title=Fifties Flashback: The American Car |year=2004 |publisher=Motorbooks International |isbn=9780760319277 |page=103 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=kexmjJbrA5oC&dq=Charles+Nash+automobile+executive&pg=PA103 |via=Google Books |accessdate=22 April 2023}}</ref> The merged company began on 2 January 1937 with no debt and $50 million in cash assets.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.allpar.com/threads/nash-kelvinator-1937-a-healthy-new-company.228402/ |title=Nash-Kelvinator 1937: A healthy new company Chapter 1 of A Car and a Refrigerator Go to War: Nash-Kelvinator in World War II |first=James |last=Mays |website=allpar.com |date=16 November 2020 |access-date=22 April 2023}}</ref> Mason then served as president of Nash-Kelvinator until 1954 when the firm merged with [[Hudson Motor Car Company|Hudson Motors]].<ref name="DetroitHistory"/>

Nash-Kelvinator ranked 27th among United States corporations in the value of World War II production contracts.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Peck |first1=Merton J. |first2=Frederic M. |last2=Scherer |title=The Weapons Acquisition Process: An Economic Analysis |year=1962 |publisher=Harvard Business School |page=619 }}</ref> As part of the [[Arsenal of Democracy]], the company shifted its factories to make a large variety of military components and aeronautic assemblies. The company expanded its facilities to produce the [[Hamilton Standard]] propellers to become the largest manufacturer of this type of propeller with more than 158,000 units made with an additional over 85,000 spare blades, assembling nearly 17,000  [[Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp]] 18-cylinder, air-cooled aircraft engine, making the newly introduced [[Sikorsky R-6]] helicopters, and becoming one of the largest suppliers of binoculars in the world with over 200,000 delivered to the U.S. Army.<ref name="DetroitHistory"/><ref>{{cite magazine|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=OFUEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Nash-Kelvinator+history&pg=PA53 |title=In which we serve freedom (advertisement) |magazine=Life |pages=52–53 |date=6 December 1943 |volume=15 |issue=23 |via=Google Books |access-date=22 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="Hyde">{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=PerGbKxOPZYC&dq=Nash-Kelvinator+binoculars&pg=PA68 |pages=68–76 |title=Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors |first=Charles K. |last=Hyde |publisher=Wayne State University Press |date=2009 |isbn=9780814334461 |access-date=22 April 2023}}</ref> Starting in late 1944, the company began to work on new car designs and by 1945 it completed new proving grounds in Wisconsin.<ref name="Hyde"/>

In 1955, Kelvinator introduced the Kelvinator Food-A-Rama Side-by-Side Refrigerator, one of the earliest modern side-by-side frost-free refrigerators.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.antiqueappliances.com/treasures/1952Kelvinator.htm |title=1952 Kelvinator Food-A-Rama Side by Side Refrigerator |website=antiqueappliances.com |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20040122035234/http://www.antiqueappliances.com/treasures/1952Kelvinator.htm |archive-date=22 January 2004 |access-date=20 April 2013 }}</ref> Kelvinator consumer products, before and after the merger with Nash, were considered an [[Luxury goods|upmarket]] brand of household appliances.

In 1954, Nash-Kelvinator acquired [[Hudson Motor Car Company]] of [[Detroit]], Michigan, in what was called a mutually beneficial merger that formed the [[American Motors Corporation]]. It was the largest corporate consolidation to date. Kelvinator continued as a wholly owned division that was focused on the production and marketing of major home appliances and refrigeration equipment within the new company.

Seeking to focus on the automobile market, the rights to the Kelvinator brand was sold by AMC to [[White Sewing Machine Company|White Consolidated Industries]] in 1968, which brought the product under its corporate appliance group, joining the [[White-Westinghouse]], [[Gibson Appliance|Gibson]], and [[Frigidaire]] appliance brands. The appliance division of White Consolidated Industries is now part of [[Sweden]]'s [[Electrolux]] Corporation. The Kelvinator brand is applied to household appliances and scientific refrigeration systems.