Luther D. and Emory H. Snyder started the Littlestown Hardware and Foundry Company, Inc. as a gray iron foundry with sixteen employees— 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, bookends, fire place tools and doorstops complemented the wide variety of commercial castings produced. Today, with 70 employees, over 95% 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.