Westinghouse Wartime Products
May 1943 Popular Mechanics

May 1943 Popular Mechanics

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Westinghouse is yet another bulwark company of America's foundational industrial age, beginning in the late 19th Century. George Westinghouse founded eponymously-named company, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, in 1886, during the time he was working with Nikola Tesla (I wonder whether any of the current-day anti-Tesla nimrods are stupid enough to vandalize NT statues and monuments?) to institute a commercial electrification infrastructure. Mr. Westinghouse began his life of fame and fortune with a locomotive air brake design. During World War II, Westinghouse's many locations designed and manufactured many types of products to facilitate troops in all Theaters of Operation. This 1943 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine carried a full-page advertisement promoting the company's efforts.

Westinghouse Wartime Products Ad

Wherever the fighting men of the United Nations see action today, Westinghouse wartime products are at work - on every front, in every battle.

There are already thousands of these products - electrical, electronic, mechanical, chemical, plastic. More of them are coming. Day and night, the search goes on in our laboratories and engineering departments to find still more effective ways of bringing victory nearer and surer.

Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1. In North Africa, American tanks - equipped with a special Westinghouse gun device - are giving American forces new striking power. These tanks, unlike enemy tanks, are able to fire with incredible accuracy at full speed over rough grounds.

2. In Russia, American planes - supporting the ground forces - are helping to win battle after battle. Westinghouse builds parts for these planes, provides vital equipment for producing the aluminum and magnesium from which they are made.

3 On the Seven Seas, helping to keep our supply lines open, are scores of Westinghouse products. Among them are turbines, gears, electric drives, motors, anti-aircraft gun mounts, instruments and controls.

4. In the Pacific, Westinghouse-built "walkie-talkies" and other types of communications equipment, x-rays, bomb-fuses, anti-tank shells, and other weapons are doing their share to lick the Japs.

5. In the Bombing of Germany, delicate, precision-made aircraft instruments and radios direct our planes to their targets. Much of this blind-flying and navigating equipment is made by Westinghouse.

6. On the Production Front, Westinghouse products - from generators to motors, switches, transformers, automatic controls - are on the job in hundreds of war plants ... helping win the battle of production.

Tune in the Westinghouse Program starring John Charles Thomas - N B C Network, Sunday, 2:30 P. M., Eastern War Time.

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