Leich Electric was a manufacturing company of telecommunications equipment in the United States. Leich produced telephone sets, switchboards, telephone exchange equipment, and associated tools and materials for the independent telephone market in the United States and Canada. The company was created as the Cracraft-Leich Electric Company as a result of a merger of the Advance Electric Company and the Eureka Electric Company. The name was changed to the Leich Electric Co. in 1917. In 1950 it was acquired by General Telephone Corporation. GTE grouped the company with another acquisition, the

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, for which Leich also manufactured telephone sets. Leich Electric was located in

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in 1903, after its predecessors had been located in

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and

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Defunct telecommunications companies of the United States Defunct companies based in Illinois DeKalb, Illinois Telecommunications companies established in 1903 American companies established in 1903 {{US-telecom-company-stub