Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leitz and Leica Glass
From: "Bryan Willman" <bryanwi@seanet.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 12:42:29 -0700
 
This is really sort of an odd thing to get hung up on.

Glass is like plastic, brass or steel.  Surely nobody
cares whether Leica mined their own iron ore or drilled
for their own oil?

The real issue is what glasses did they choose,
and what manufacturing processes did they
apply to them?

(Yes, early in this century the Ford Rouge River plant
had it's own iron smelters and steel furnaces, but that
was a pretty extreme example of vertical integration.)

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