Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Nomenclature / Source
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 22:56:30 -0400

At 09:29 PM 6/5/98 -0400, Dan Cardish wrote:
>You mean to tell me that someone had actually named their dog, "Summarex"?

<sigh>  The dog, of course, was named "Rex".  Leitz was already using the
Summar name, as Marvin has already pointed out.  Berek, between puffs on
his cigar, coagulated the names to form "Summarex".  (The versuchts version
of the Summarex was simply engraved "1.5/9cm Summar", I recall.)

Marc


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