BOUND BOY BECAME U.S. MOTOR MAGNATE
(10 a. 111.) NEW YORK, June 7. The death is announced of Mr. Charles Warren Nash, the motor car manufacturer, aged 84. As a result of a guardianship court order, he became a bound boy at the age of six and was sent to work for a farmer in Michigan He rose to become one of America’s industrial giants. At the turn of the century, while vice-president of the Durant Dort Carriage Company, he invented what was to become a standard feature of all mass production—the straightline conveyer belt system of assembly.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22658, 8 June 1948, Page 7
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