After World War II, Taft-Peirce continued to design and bring to market both improved versions of its previous designs and new machines and tools.
During the Korean War, Taft-Peirce established a department for the manufacture of propeller shafts for the Pratt & Whitney Division of the United Aircraft Corporation and also designed atomic reactor control mechanisms for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. After the end of the conflict, the company produced parts for the submarine-fired Polaris Missile.
Between 1929 and 1952, Taft-Peirce more than doubled its manufacturing floor space, to approximately 450,000 square feet. Into the late 1970s the company continued to carry out design and manufacturing jobs for others and to produce a wide range of precision machines and tools at its Woonsocket facility.
<i>Images courtesy of the Woonsocket Historical Society</i>
