The Comptometer in Italy
THE spirit of modern progress that dominates the managerial policies of the FIAT Company of Turin, Italy, is as strongly in evidence in the offices as in the factory departments of this great industry.
Fiat Motor Co. office group including participants in test.
Section of Compometer department. It is interesting to note that 97% of the calculating machines owned by Fiat are Comptometers, which number 255.
Recognizing the economic value of trained over untrained office workers the FIAT Company maintain within the plant their own School for the training of Comptometer operators. It was at the suggestion and under the supervision of Cav. Carlo Ferraris, General Agent for the Comptometer in Italy, that the School was organized and it was because of his activities in behalf of the extension of such vocational education that the title of
