Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1995/11/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>From thodge@charweb.org Wed Nov 1 18:01:06 1995 From: Tom Hodge <thodge@charweb.org> X-Sender: thodge@wilbur To: Jeffrey Frey <jeff@eng.umd.edu> Subject: Re: CL Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Jeffrey Frey wrote: > I did check the Leica site, which is adding interesting information, mostly > in German, all the time. > Appears that Leitz and Leica are fully Swiss owned now; I wonder whther > Wild has discarded its own trade name, because they are showing pictures of > what used to be Wild surveying instruments on the Leica site. The Leica > group includes Leitz instruments, mostly in Switzerland, and Leica cameras, > mostly in Germany. There are more employees in Germany than in Switzerland, > about 600 making Leica cameras in Solms, which is I understand near Wetzlar, > and the rest making other nice things like microscopes here and there. Several > hundred people still are working in Wetzlar where is a feinwerktechnik among > other things. > > The Leica site claims development and production in 8 countries on 3 > different continents, and do claim research on cameras in Switzerland, > Germany, Buffalo NY and Singapore. Also production in Portugal and Singapore > as well as elsewhere. > > Ah, I see at the bottom of the page the note > Founded in 1990 by the merger of Wild Leitz and Cambridge Instruments. > So Wild and Leitz must have got together earlier and then merged with > Cambridge, which was the first manufacturer of scanning electron microscopes > in the world. > > Whew! > > Regards, > Jeff >