Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:00 PM 8/30/98 +0000, you wrote: >When Solms took over what had been Ernst Leitz, was that the end of >the original family-owned company? What happened to the old works at >Wetzlar? Did most of the staff move to the new Solms plant? Solms is not a company, it's a city. Leitz was sold a while back before the factory moved to Solms. Ownership has traded several times since. It's still Leica. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch The "C" students run the world. Harry S Truman