defunct Lynn, Massachusetts, USA-based machine manufacturer
patenter of several mass production process improvements
acquired by USMC in 1924 and 1927 for $2.7m in aggregate, almost two thirds of USMC’s acquisition spending (Bowman, page 304)
Little was a potential competitor with a new process for staple side lasting and sole sewing. This process came to be called the Littleway process.
— Bowman, page 304
Google Patents: assignee:“Littleway Process Company”
Sources
- Ward S. Bowman’s review of Carl Kaysen’s United States v. United Shoe Machinery Corporation, An Economic Analysis of an Antitrust Case, in Yale Law Journal, Volume 66, Page 303, 1956.