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

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Subject: Re: Wetzlar/Solms Quality
From: "Roger Beamon" <beamon@primenet.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:14:23 -0700

On 31 Jul 97,  FKemper@aol.com wrote:

> Actually, they are the same people. Leica Solms is merely an assembly and
> testing area,   <snip>

Well, they are and they aren't according to Rogliatti in his "Leica the 
First 70 Years". He mentions that the move to Solms from Wetzlar 
(1988) coincided with a time when Leica lost many of its senior workers 
due to normal attrition. They all got old and retired at the same time, it 
seems.
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Roger Beamon  
       Naturalist & Photographer
       Leica Historical Society Of America
       mailto:beamon@primenet.com
          
          Thought for the day:
      The hardness of butter is proportional
      to the softness of the bread.