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Designed and manufactured by the Woodward Governor Company, circa 1935.

GOVERNOR HISTORY. AERO DIGEST 9-193.5.jpg The DC-3 Aircraft. All the Pratt & Whitney engines were exclusively equipped with Elmer Woodward's propeller governor.ThumbnailsA Hamilton Standard 5U series double capacity engine governor with electric head control.The DC-3 Aircraft. All the Pratt & Whitney engines were exclusively equipped with Elmer Woodward's propeller governor.ThumbnailsA Hamilton Standard 5U series double capacity engine governor with electric head control.The DC-3 Aircraft. All the Pratt & Whitney engines were exclusively equipped with Elmer Woodward's propeller governor.ThumbnailsA Hamilton Standard 5U series double capacity engine governor with electric head control.The DC-3 Aircraft. All the Pratt & Whitney engines were exclusively equipped with Elmer Woodward's propeller governor.ThumbnailsA Hamilton Standard 5U series double capacity engine governor with electric head control.

This was the Hamilton Standard Company's first Woodward governor engine application and one of the first advertisements with a Woodward governor on an aircraft engine, circa 1935.