Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/31

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Subject: Re: Wetzlar/Solms Quality
From: FKemper@aol.com
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 19:04:56 -0400 (EDT)

In einer eMail vom 31.07.97  02:28:24, schreiben Sie:

<< It is silly to
 suggest that the folks at Solms are not those same folks who turned and
 milled and cut and ground parts in Wetzlar. >>

Actually, they are the same people. Leica Solms is merely an assembly and
testing area, besides this marketing, pr and other administration departments
are located there. A lot of Leica parts still are made in Wetzlar (which is
only three miles away from Solms). When Leica made the M6J, they really
activated machinery last used to make M3 parts. However: 70 Percent of the
assembly of any M6 is done in Portugal. But I think they do it that way at
least for the last 15 years.

Leica Solms is very big in lens assembly.

Things I would not regard as a real Leica are these p6s things, I do not like
them very much and I cannot see what is unique with them.

Frank

Frank