Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Portugal/Germany -- R5 Production
From: WILLIAM CALDWELL <sneeker@erols.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 14:43:33 -0500
 
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> The production of the R cameras switched from Portugal to Germany during the last years of the R5. Around Photokina 1988 I guess, as for the M6.

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My R5, serial number 19017XX, is engraved, "LEICA CAMERA GMBH(;)
GERMANY(.)"  I do not have a year/serial number list for R camera
bodies, but from M camera lists, I would hazard a guess of 1990-91 for
its manufacture.

Bill Caldwell