H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Company
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| Die-cast Manufacturing | |
| Industry | Die-cast |
| Genre | Die-cast bearings |
| Fate | Bankruptcy |
| Founded | 1893 |
| Founder | Herbert H. Franklin (1866-1956) |
| Defunct | 1934 |
| Headquarters | Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, United States |
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Area served
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United States |
| Products |
Bearings Automotive parts |
| Owner | Herbert H. Franklin |
| Subsidiaries |
Franklin Automobile Company Franklin Die-casting Company |
H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Company was founded in 1893 by industrialist Herbert H. Franklin in Syracuse, New York. The company specialized in machine die casting and made small parts such as gears and bearing caps. It was the first company in the world in that enterprise.
Franklin Manufacturing and its subsidiaries, except its aircraft engine branch, closed in 1934 due to bankruptcy.
Herbert H. Franklin worked as a newspaper publisher, real estate agent and Columbia Bicycle shop owner in Coxsackie, New York. After he quit the publishing business in 1893, he relocated to Syracuse, New York.
Franklin began his career in the metal die casting business (in fact, he invented the term) before establishing his automobile enterprise.
In 1886, at age 19, Franklin moved to Coxsackie, New York where he spent his early career as a newspaper editor for his uncle, who owned a newspaper and publishing company. Franklin remained in that capacity until 1892.
By late 1892, Franklin became interested in die casting when Herbert G. Underwood of Yonkers, New York, an employee of a valve company Franklin had helped to bring to Coxsackie, was experimenting with a "hydrostatic moulding process." Not long after, Franklin quit the newspaper business, and relocated to Syracuse, New York.
Franklin was presented with an opportunity to "buy" a patent for the process of die-casting and he jumped at the chance. Later, he accurately predicted; "We are developing a process that will revolutionize the metal manufacturing business."
By 1893, the money he earned from his many enterprises in Coxsackie supported him for almost a year and helped him launch the H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Company which was the first machine die-casting enterprise in the world. The company was incorporated on December 12, 1895.
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