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Your Source for Franklin Motor Cars
Top Quality
Logo Wear ...
Franklin Wear for Air Cooled People
  Sterling Silver Franklin Pendants w/chain...only available from Old Car Joel
Golf, Tee & Denim Shirts, Baseball Caps
Nevr-Dull Polish   
EXCLUSIVE!!! Custom Shirts-Tees, Golf,
Denim and Baseball Caps...
all with the Antique Franklin Car Logo.
High Quality, Low Cost,
Variety of sizes and colors (children's sizes and
adult up to XXX).
Share the excitement of the early 1900's autos.
email: oldcarjoel@optonline.net
 Blue Denim (Wrangler Brand) Button Down
Long Sleeve Shirts with logo, ass't sizes: $35.00+$3.95 s&h
 Golf Shirt (Breast Pocket) with
Franklin Motor Cars Logo: blue, tan, white, black, green, gold
ass't sizes: $25.00 + $3.95 s&h
 Service Station Tee Shirt, yellow only,
ass't sizes: $15.00 + $3.95 s&h
 Tee Shirt with Franklin logo
across the front: ass't sizes: $15.00 + $3.95 s&h
green or gold with black logo
purple or blue with gold logo  Tee Shirt(white only)
with photo of the 1917 series
9 Franklin with copy of the ad printed
across the shirt, ass't sizes: $15.00 + $3.95 s&h
Franklin Baseball Cap, mesh or solid back,
one size fits all:
available in blue, red or tan: $10.00+ $3.95 s&h
Want your car's chrome and brass to shine?
Order Nevr-Dull available in two sizes...extra large can-2 pounds or
smaller size can-5 oz. ...great for taking along to shows.
This "stuff" really works!!
To order*, or for more info, call: Joel Braverman: 516-532-0436
or Email: oldcarjoel@optonline.net
Checks, Money Orders or PayPal accepted.
*When ordering, please specify quantity, style, color
and size for each item and add $3.95 s&h per item .
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The H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Company built the most successful American
direct air-cooled cars from 1902 to 1934. The Company was run, during its first
thirty-two years by Herbert H. Franklin, backer of the first die casting business,
(for which he coined the term "die cast") and John Wilkinson, the engineer who
built the first Franklin Car and whose design principles combining high quality
with light weight gave Franklins their distinct reputation for dependability and
long life. Their legacy has been one of successful innovation and, of course, the
unusual vehicles that survive.The Franklin motor car was invented by the
engineer John Wilkinson and manufactured by the industrialist H. H. Franklin and
marked under his name. The Franklin was one of the most innovative motor cars of
its time, featuring an air-cooled engine, scientific light weight and flexible
construction at a time when other luxury car manufacturers were making ponderous
machines. Although it was a luxury car, its unique features made the Franklin a
pleasant and easy car to operate, and consequently most Franklins were owner driven.
The company always featured many body styles, both factory and custom-made, which
were conducive to being owner driven. The Franklin's design allowed it to set many
records in point-to-point races which revealed its superior nimble handling, durability,
economy and speed over the rough roads of the day. Throughout its history Franklin was
a luxury car and it was in this part of the automotive market that it competed with the
other notable makes of the day. As such it fell victim to the Great Depression along
with many of these same fine luxury car manufacturers.
These remarkable motor cars engendered such a loyal and faithful following that interest
in these automobiles never died out. Many individuals continued to operate Franklins as
their every day automobiles or preserved them right up to the emergence of the antique and
classic hobby, decades after production ceased in 1934. The H. H. Franklin Manufacturing
Company was a very large employer in Syracuse, New York area, its home base, and many people
across the world had very fond associations with the company and its motor cars either as
employees, dealers, service personnel or just loyal customers of that fine make. For others
who were younger it may have been an unforgettable recollection of a Franklin in the family
or one which was owned by a neighbor. They were very distinctive automobiles and were
not easily forgotten.
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*****Events*****
2006 Trek
53rd Franklin Trek
Cazenovia College
Cazenovia, NY 13035
NOTE DATES OF THE 2006 TREK
August 2006
August 12 to 19, 2006
The 53nd Franklin Trek will be a week full of events that Trekkers
have enjoyed in the past and as well as some new fun doings.
Click here for all the information regarding the 2006 Franklin Trek at Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY
http://www.franklincar.org/06Trek/06trek1.htm
Midwest Region of
The H. H. Franklin Club, Inc.
As President of the Midwest Region of the Franklin Club I want to invite
everyone to the upcoming 2006 meets. Our gatherings are small compared
to the Cazenovia Treks but we always have a wonderful time. Every meet is
held in a different location within our Region and usually attended by
folks from New York, New Jersey, Texas, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Kansas and
several of the Midwest States. Our meetings are deliberately moved from
State to State to offer easy attendance for those who can't always travel
long distances and gives all members an option to host a meet. Our hosts
have always come up with new ideas and many many interesting places to visit.
Listed below are the meets we've planned for this year and I hope you'll be
able to join us. Bring a Franklin if you can, come anyway. If you have
questions please call me at 618.235.1244 or e-mail: hjwade@apci.net
Specific information as to agenda, motel availability, map directions, etc.
will be provided to all paid Midwest Region members no later than one month
prior to the meet or to anyone wishing to attend. Just contact me to get
on the mailing list. I hope you'll consider joining us.
Jim Wade, President, Midwest Region of HHFC
If you're not on the Midwest mailing list please e-mail: fbhantak@aol.com
or write Frank Hantak, 37770 S. Silverwood, Dr., Tucson, AZ 85739-2015.
Request to be on the Midwest Meet mailing list, please give your
complete mailing address.
Fall 2006 New Jersey - Host: Pat and Brendon Hogan Sept 13 to 17
973-584-4107
If you are not on the Midwest Region mailing list, just tag the
blue Midwest Region below and give us your name, address and phone
number. We will be happy to add you to the meet mailings. Or joint
the Midwest Region, tag the blue Membership Form below and complete it.
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 Sears Motor Buggy,1909-1912
Manufacturer
Sears, Roebuck and Company - founded in 1897
The Man
Richard Warren Sears
b. Dec. 7, 1863, Stewartville, Minn., U.S.
d. Sept. 28, 1914, Waukesha, Wis.
After his father's death and at the age of 17, Sears went to work for the
Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway as a station agent. When a jeweler refused
a watch shipment, Sears sold the watches to other station agents making a
$5,000 profit. With this money, he started a mail-order business watch business
in Minneapolis in 1886, under the name of R. W. Sears Watch Company. Within a
year, he hired Alvah C. Roebuck as a watch repairman and moved his business to
Chicago. In 1887, Sears published a mail-order catalog offering watches, diamonds,
and jewelry, all with a money-back guarantee. Sears eventually sold this business
but in 1893 went into partnership with Roebuck and the mail-order business Sears,
Roebuck and Company was formed.
The Car
It was late in the Fall of 1908 when Sears announced the upcoming Sears automobile.
The big Fall 1909 Sears catalogue was the first to include the Sears Motor Buggy.
Despite Sears' solid financial base and unchallenged sales ability, the Sears Motor
Buggy was doomed from the start. Buyers were looking for a faster, heavier, more
comfortable transportation and the Sears with its tiller steering and 25-mph top speed
was not what the they wanted. Added to that the limitations of mail order selling and
no local dealers, it is not hard to see why Sears never made a dent in the car market.
By 1912, the automobile division lost $80,000. There were approximately 3,500 Sears Motor
Buggy's made from 1909 to 1912. http://www.aaca.org/bntc/kidskorner/picturepgs/sears.htm
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 Ford Model-T
1908 - 1927
Manufacturer
Ford Motor Company- founded in 1903
The Man
Henry Ford
b. July 30, 1863, Michigan., US
d. April 7, 1947, Dearborn, Michigan
Born in Wayne County, Michigan, Ford showed an early interest in mechanics,
constructing his first steam engine at the age of 15. In 1893 he built his
first internal combustion engine, a small one-cylinder gasoline model,
and in 1896 he built his first automobile.
In June 1903, Ford helped establish Ford Motor Company. In 1908, the
highly successful Model T was introduced. Demand for this car was so great
that Ford developed new mass-production methods in order to manufacture it in
sufficient quantities; in 1911 he established the industry's first branch
assembly plant (in Kansas City, Mo.); in 1913 he introduced the world's first
moving assembly line for cars; and in 1914, to further improve labor productivity,
he introduced the $5 daily wage for an 8-hour day (replacing $2.34 for a 9-hour day).
In addition to earning numerous patents on auto mechanisms, Ford served as a vice
president of the Society of Automotive Engineers when it was founded in 1905 to
standardize U.S. automotive parts. Ford served as president of the Ford Motor Company
from 1906 to 1919 and from 1943 to 1945.
The Car
The first production Model T Ford was assembled at the Piquette Avenue Plant
in Detroit on October 1, 1908. Over the next 19 years, Ford would build 15,000,000
automobiles with the Model "T" engine, the longest run of any single model apart
from the Volkswagen Beetle. From 1908-1927, the Model T would endure with little
change in its design. Henry Ford had succeeded in his quest to build a car for the
masses. The Model-T would be voted the car of the twentieth century.
By mid-1914 there were more than 500,000 Model T's on the roads of the world;
by 1923 the company was producing more than half of America's automotive vehicles
and by the end of the 1920s had more than 20 assembly plants overseas in Europe,
Latin America, Canada, Asia, South Africa, and Australia. The Ford had become the
world's most familiar make of car.
In 1927 the last Model T and the first new Model A were produced, followed in 1932
by the first Ford V-8. In 1922 Ford had acquired the Lincoln Motor Company
(founded 1917), which would produce Ford's luxury Lincolns and Continentals.
In 1938 Ford introduced the first Mercury, a car in the medium-priced range.
Ford's only other independent make, the Edsel, was a financial failure and
lasted but three years, 1957-59.
Note: When young Ford left his father's farm in 1879 for Detroit, only two
out of eight Americans lived in cities; when he died at age 83, the proportion
was five out of eight. Once Ford realized the tremendous part he and his Model
T automobile had played in bringing about this change, he wanted nothing more
than to reverse it, or at least to recapture the rural values of his boyhood.
Henry Ford, then, is an apt symbol of the transition from an agricultural to
an industrial America. http://www.aaca.org/bntc/kidskorner/picturepgs/model-t.htm
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