Price/Bid: | $ 18,100 |
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Make: | Franklin | |
Model: | Model 135 | |
Condition: | Used | |
Mileage: | 111111 | |
Engine: | Air Cooled Inline 6 Cyl | |
Location: | 850**, Phoenix, Arizona | |
#VIN: | 137717 |
American Herbert H.Franklin founded a small pressure foundry in 1895. Franklin set up an office and a small factory in the “Lipe Shop”, in connection with C.E Lipe’s metal industry factory on Geddes Street in New York. A few years later, A.T.Brown and C.E Lipe, who developed and manufactured gearboxes, tools and machines, introduced Franklin to John Wilkinson, who developed air-cooled engines. The story of an upper-class air-cooled luxury car began. The first air-cooled, four cylinder inli...