page_title: Archibald Frazer-Nash
section_title: Nash & Thompson
hierarchical_section_title: Archibald Frazer-Nash / Engineering / Nash & Thompson
caption_attribution_description: English: Royal Air Force- 1939-1945- Coastal Command The Frazer-Nash FN13 rear turret of a Sunderland of No 210 Squadron at Oban, August 1940. The Sunderland was the first RAF flying boat to be fitted with power-operated gun turrets.
context_page_description: Archibald Goodman Frazer Nash, was an early English motor car designer and engineer, who specialised in manufacturer of light and sports cars in England.
  Nash added his third name Frazer and a hyphen to his surname in 1938 and so either form may be correct depending on the period.
context_section_description: He was responsible for "many highly successful commercial inventions" starting with his Vickers-Nash Indicator. Friend, Gordon Burt of Mowlem, was having trouble with jib cranes and Nash came up with a device to calculate and display the weight of a load a crane was about to lift.
  In 1929 he launched Nash Safe-Load Indicators, manufacture was later licensed to Vickers. Encouraged by this success and the promise of a better income than provided by AFN Limited he started a separate engineering company, Nash & Thompson, described as Air Ministry contractors and armament engineers with a special interest in its application to aircraft.
caption: FN-13 tail turret
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