Luther D. and Emory H. Snyder started the Littlestown Hardware and Foundry Company, Inc., with sixteen employees, as a gray iron foundry— producing, machining, painting, & plating iron castings. For World War I, castings for bearings and shafts for the war effort were made. Later, hardware items, such as bench vises, flanges, hammers, book ends, fire place tools and door stops complemented the wide variety of commercial castings produced. Today, with 95 employees, over 90% of our business is producing commercial aluminum castings. First Aluminum Casting Production. Most of the production was for the war effort: 1,200,000 Hand Grenades 3,000,000 Rifle Grenades 3,000,000 Bomb Plugs Thousands of Anti-Personnel Mines Major Aluminum Casting Production Expansion. Addition of Littco Awning Hardware & Aluminum Hardware lines. Through the present: Continuous Modernization of Aluminum Casting Facilities. Iron Casting Production Ends. Company name shortened to Littlestown Foundry, Inc.