Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/11

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Canadian Leica
From: jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:58:00 +0000
 
An additional reason for choosing Midland, so a most likely apocryphal tale 
goes, was that it contained the same number of letters as Wetzlar (7) such 
that engraving would take the same space on products.

Jem
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From: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
To: KIMEJ44; 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
Subject: [Leica] Re: Ted & Marvin on Canadian Lei
Date: 11 March 1998 06:22

Original Subject:
[Leica] Re: Ted & Marvin on Canadian Leica

>  Ernest Leitz had been looking for a plant site in Ontario as well
> as in parts of Quebec & Nova Scotia but picked Midland because of its
> business & living conditions & the sorroundings reminded him of Wetzlar.