Franklin Balmar Corporation was a fabrication company in Woodberry, Baltimore, Maryland. It was a subcontractor for the Manhattan Project. [1]
It was incorporated in 1917 as the Franklin Railway Supply Company. In 1954 they moved their N. A. Strand Division from Chicago to Baltimore. [2] They diversified into the aerospace sector making the aluminum skin for airplanes. [3] [4]
In 1967, Aero-Chatillon Corporation purchased a controlling stake of the company. [5] In 1969, with Franklin-Balmar remaining a division, Aero-Chatillon became Macrodyne-Chatillon Corporation through a merger with Macrodyne, Inc. and Shinn Industries, Inc., [6] which became Macrodyne Industries in 1974. [7]