The green machine was designed by Walter Eckold. If you photographed it in Poland it may have been brought there by the Russians in 1945 when many Germany plants were stripped of equipment and sent east. The machine itself was probably made in 1939. ERCO in the US copied it, too. Hartmut was not sure if ERCO had a license to build it, but thinks that the German-American Emile Berliner (father) may have brought the machine to his son's (Emile, jr, founder of ERCO) attention.
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Bill Longyard
Winston-Salem, NC
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