Nash

Someone once called Charles David Nash "a laughing genius." That about describes this mechanical wizard who owns and operates Nash Special Machine Company located at the top of Palestine hill.

David Nash was born in Alderson in 1926, the son of J. Frank and Rachel Tuckwiller Nash, the grandson of Dr. C. P. Nash. He grew up in Alderson and was graduated from West Point Military Academy in June, 1948, with a B.S. degree in military engineering.

In 1953 he started to invent and design special machines. These machines are high speed folders of paper and tissue paper inserts for paint color cards, which are used by paint manufacturers such as Sherwin-Williams, Dupont and others. He has also invented, designed and built machines to put the glue on such color displays and then apply "color chips" to the glue. Other machines Nash has built make chicken. giblet wrappers, shirt paper boards, and hosiery inserts. He has three patents and about twelve "registered" or copyrighted inventions.

Nash employs from four to seven men, all of whom live nearby, and all are highly skilled craftsmen. He has plans to expand his present small plant to manufacture some of the products his machines can make. David Nash can design and build nearly any kind of machine from an idea. Then he and his craftsmen can produce it to operate perfectly.

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