Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This stuff is great! I think these guys are the ones now found at: http://www.theonion.com/ Chuck Albertson Seattle, Wash. At 05:43 PM 7/18/97 -0700, you wrote: >More from the 1982 #2 issue of the Barnack & Berek Magazine!!! >_________________________________________________________ > >NEW THINGS FROM LEITZ > >by HEINZ RICHTER > >Dated April 1, 1982, the following information reached us: > >Leitz is going to enter the automobile market with a design of their own. >An entirely new division has been created in Wetzlar, and it is hoped that >the automobile will find acceptance among buyers of high quality >automobiles. As one spokesman revealed to us, it is hoped that with the >Leitz car, the Leica does not have to be referred to any longer as the >Rolls Royce or the Mercedes of cameras.