Show BRIEF HiSTORY 1 OF FRANKLIN CARS MOTOR I Local Distributor Tells r Wondrous Story of Business Business Business Bus Bus- iness Growth The Franklin car car Americas Americas America's superfine superfine superfine super super- fine air cooled automobile will automobile will be bo at atthe atthe the show C. C W W. Newton Nowton who has 1 recently recently- re returned ro- ro rO 1 turned from a trip to the factory's actor d tho the Chicago national exhibit tells the following Interesting stor story of tho the evolution evolution evolution evo evo- lution of the Franklin car The formation In Syracuse N N. T. T on January 1 I of a new corporation known as tho the Franklin Die-Casting Die corporation corporation corpora corpora- tion reveals an Interesting bit of or automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile history Back Dack In 18 1593 3 II H. H Franklin began to manufacture castings b by a process first used by him and which was a wide from any method previously previously pre pre- employed By tho the use uso of tills this process which later became known as die ca casting It was possible to produce for the first tIme timo irregularly shaped parts both accurately and in volume and which required no machining before be bo- fore assembling The business begun In a Vcr very modest modest modest mod mod- est fashion continued to grow row slowly but surely sureh and In 1902 the 11 H. II Franklin Manufacturing company compan be began began be- be gan tho the manufacture of or automobiles in addition to die casting Tho two distinct distinct dis dis- lines of or manufacture havo Q con con- I tinned to bo be made mado in the Franklin I shops over ever since although h each so far faras faras faras as organization and antI personnel aro arc concerned has be been n independent of the tho other In or order er to further th the the- expansion plans no now under way at the big big- Syracuse Syracuse Syracuse Syra Syra- cuse pl plant t whore 1400 HOO persons are aro employed em em- tho the dlo die casting business and the manufacture of ot automobiles will j I travel separate piths paths from now no on I The die casting business is of at no small proportions in Itself Itsel orders now on hand will take tako four months to complete complete complete com com- and officials of ot tho the now new corporation corporation corporation cor cor- will take steps at once to toward toward toward to- to ward tho the selection of a n. suitable site Bite and the erection of or buildings away from tho the automobile factory The Tho area of tho present Franklin factories covering a floor space of more moro than three twenty acres is in sharp contrast to the small back room whore Mr Ir Franklin lIn first began business business busi busi- ness a a. quarter of oC a century ago o. PUSI 1 |