The Lehigh Calculating Machine

Readers of “TOPICS” will be interested in knowing that the Lehigh Calculating Machine, a new calculating ma-chine manufactured by the Lehigh Corporation, of 25 West 43rd St., New York, U. S. A., whose factory is at Lehighton, Pa., U. S. A., is now ready for delivery.
This machine manufactured under a license issued to The Lehigh Corporation by the United States Government, is manufactured under basis patents which have been in use for over fifteen years throughout the entire world. Its basic construction is of foreign parentage, and with the improvements and refinements that have been made over the basic patents, it is believed to be one of the fastest and most accurate machines constructed. Mechanically, the machine is one of the most perfect pieces of mechanism that foreign invention with American manufacturing brains and money has produced.
The particular advantage of the Lehigh Calculator is that short-cut operation is possible with all factors registering their true figures. The machine is of the crank type, but enough larger than the so-called Midget Type to permit more rugged and heavier construction, and still retains sufficient lightness to be portable for use anywhere under most conditions. All factors register, and the machine is so simple in its construction that anyone can operate it
The Lehigh Calculator loses none of its foreign ruggedness but in its manufacture American methods of large production, standardization and interchangeability of all parts have been applied with success.
The organization has been critically planned, and is amply financed. Joseph Gooch, Jr., President and Treasurer of the corporation, states that the production program has been so anticipated that the company's selling organization at its first ten distributing points can be properly main-tained. Mr. Gooch states further that the program of the company is conservative, and that while production will be consistently increased, it is improbable that the country can be thoroughly covered for some time to come.
W. J. Peck, General Sales Manager, states that the company has received a large number of inquiries from foreign dealers, and that a certain quota of the factory out-put will be held for foreign sale.
It should be made clear that the Lehigh Calculator is not a new machine, for the basic patents under which it is constructed have been in successful operation for years.
The company’s plant at Lehighton, Pa., U. S. A., is well personnelled, and is ideally equipped for the precision type of work called for. Men closest to the field, and not associated actively with the company predict an unusual future and service for the Lehigh Calculator, in view of its construction, operation and all around serviceableness.
It is believed that congratulations are in order to the young men of The Lehigh Corporation, who have had the ingenuity and ambition to make the Lehigh Calculator pos-sible, an American made and owned product, offering real service to American business.