Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You are absolutely correct. I just looked through my shelves and I have a half dozen of the "Leitz, Plastic-Color P-50" cardboard (with colored plastic cover) two-hole filing folders. I used to work at the European Space Agency in Darmstadt and accumulated a lot of files, that I brought home. Until you mentioned it, I had forgotten that I had them. Jim At 09:39 PM 6/20/98 +0200, you wrote: >>In Germany there is also a well-known manufacturer/supplier of office supplies >>named "Leitz." I believe they are headquarterd in Stuttgart. To the bets of >>my knowledge there is no relationship with the camera/optical company Leitz. >>Mike Swiek >Correct. The name is Leitz, Ernst Leitz. They are still around today. I >used to pass their headquarter on my daily train ride for many years. >Definitely NOT family, these guys. >BTW their best known product is a cardboard two-hole filing folder; while >there are many companies making those the name "Leitz-Ordner" has become a >generic term (like you say xeroxed for photocopied). >-- Dieter >Dieter Stoll D-72127 Kusterdingen, Germany >dstoll@tuebingen.netsurf.de Home fax: +49-7071-368520 >