Coin Machine Manufacturing Company
The Coin Machine Manufacturing Company, incorporated in the state of Oregon in 1910, by Thomas Irving Potter, who owned a patent on a "Coin Delivering Machine" which was later advertised as the "Potter Coin Machine.”
In 1910, the company announced that it has secured 30 acres of “valuable manufacturing property at Trafford City, PA, just outside of the city of Pittsburgh and immediately adjoining the 70-acre site of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.”
When asked the reason for building its eastern plant at Trafford City, one of the officials of the company remarked: "The greatest market for the sale of the Potter automatic change computing machine will be in the eastern states, where department stores are more numerous and larger than in, any other part of the United States. Our Pennsylvania plant is admirably located, from a transportation standpoint, so that we can distribute to any part of the union more quickly, perhaps, than from any other city in this country. Then, again, the raw material necessary in the construction of the machine is within an hour's ride from our site, skilled mechanics are easily obtainable and fuel is almost at out very door. These are wonderfully important features in determining where to locate a large manufacturing industry."
Thomas Irving Potter (1887–1963)
