Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]HCB was given a Leica by the factory in 1955, serial number 750 000 - could this be the one? - ---------- > From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] HCB and his Leica > Date: 08. toukokuuta 1998 0:22 > > At 10:31 PM 5/7/98 +0200, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > >Page 24 has a picture of the Leica IIIG because that was the first Leica > >HCB used in 1932. > > Hardly! The IIIg wasn't released until 1957 and, even though HCB is GOOD, > even he isn't a chronaltemporist! > > Nor was it a Leica G, otherwise known as a IIIa, as this wasn't released > until 1935. > > It might well have been a Leica Standard, Model E, or a Leica I, Model C, > or a Leica I, Model B Compur, or a Leica I, Model A, or even a Luxus or a > or a Leica II, Model D, all of which were in production in or before1932. > > Marc > > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!