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- 1916: Nash Motors was founded, in Wisconsin, by Charles Nash
after buying the Thomas B. Jeffery Company.
- WW I: Nash built Jeffrey
4x4 Quad trucks.
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- 1937: Nash Motors and Kelvinator Appliance Co. merged to form
Nash-Kelvinator Corp..
- 1954: Nash-Kelvinator bought Hudson Car co., forming
American Motors Corp. (AMC).
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- 1953-1961:
The Nash Metropolitan was designed, and sold, in the USA
but built for Nash in the UK by Austin, part of BMC.
It had the Austin A40's 1200cc 4-cylinder engine.
- 1955: The S3's engine grew to 1489cc.
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- The S3 also sported a rather fanciful bonnet emblem.
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- 1956: The Metropolitan was sold in the UK badged as
the Austin Metropolitan and, from 1961, simply as the Metropolitan.
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- (1968: AMC sold Kelvinator.)
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