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

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

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.