Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thx Marc Regards, Bill Carson Marc James Small wrote: > At 04:54 PM 10/27/1999 -0700, Bill Carson wrote: > >I asked the question this week as to whether Wild-Heerbrug still owned the > old > >E. Leitz Company?? Anyone know what happened to that alliance? Bill Carson > > > > Well, around fifteen or twenty years back, Wild-Heerbrug was bought out by > Cambridge PLC. Cambridge hived off the camera, lens, binocular, and > slide-projector division of Leica in a management buy-out and retained the > rest (microscopes and scientific gear). I believe the Ernst Leitz name is > gone, though. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!