Franklin Balmar Corporation was a fabrication company in
Woodberry, Baltimore, Maryland. It was a subcontractor for the
Manhattan Project
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History
It was incorporated in 1917 as the Franklin Railway Supply Company. In 1954 they moved their N. A. Strand Division from
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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Baltimore
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. They diversified into the
aerospace
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sector making the aluminum skin for airplanes.
In 1967, Aero-Chatillon Corporation purchased a controlling stake of the company.
[(8 February 1967)]
FRANKLIN FIRM CONTROL IS SOLD: Aero-Chatillon Gets 85% Of Company Stock
''Baltimore Sun'' In 1969, with Franklin-Balmar remaining a division, Aero-Chatillon became Macrodyne-Chatillon Corporation through a merger with Macrodyne, Inc. and Shinn Industries, Inc.,
[(29 March 1969)]
''Baltimore Sun'' which became Macrodyne Industries in 1974.
[[https://books.google.com/books?id=gdYiAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Macrodyne-Chatillon%22&dq=%22Macrodyne-Chatillon%22&hl=en&ei=UTSnTpTEJqbL0QG997X8DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAQ Directory of obsolete securities], p. 15 (1991)]
References
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Defunct companies based in Baltimore
1917 establishments in Maryland
Woodberry, Baltimore