Industry History | Parker Hannifin — A Loft Lease After the Truck Went Over the Bank
· 1917-3
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Industry History | Parker Hannifin — A Loft Lease After the Truck Went Over the Bank
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People treat Parker Hannifin as a Mayfield Heights campus that always sold motion-control parts to every factory that moved air or oil.
The first book was a Cleveland loft and a pneumatic brake.
On 13 March 1917 Arthur LaRue Parker, a Case-trained electrical engineer, organized the Parker Appliance Company from an office listed at 1115 in the Schofield Building at East Ninth and Euclid.
Production started in a second-story loft on the near west side with partner Carl Klamm and a few hundred dollars for the lease.
The first product was a pneumatic brake for trucks and buses.
In 1919 a demonstration truck went over a Pennsylvania bank and took the inventory with it.
Parker closed the shop and went back to the Nickel Plate Road as an engineer until he had saved enough to reopen in 1924.
The second book sold leak-tight tube fittings.
Aviation paid the rent: Glenn L. Martin needed couplings that would hold fuel under pressure, and a young air-mail pilot, Charles Lindbergh, put Parker fittings on the Spirit of St. Louis before the 1927 Atlantic crossing.
The company does not claim it made the flight possible.
It claims a fitting that did not leak when the tanks were full.
In 1935 Parker moved into a 450,000-square-foot former Hupp plant at 17325 Euclid Avenue, the address that carried the firm through the war orders of 1940 and 1941.
Arthur Parker died on 1 January 1945.
The 1957 purchase of Hannifin put the second name on the door.
The Schofield Building still stands on the southwest corner of East Ninth and Euclid, now a hotel and apartments after a 2016 restoration of the 1902 facade.
A visitor can stand on the public sidewalk where the 1917 office address was filed and look up at the same brick stack.
Photo: public street view of downtown Cleveland via Wikimedia Commons.
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