Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/12

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Subject: [Leica] Reid
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:58:53 -0500

At 04:14 PM 1999-02-12 +0000, Alex Hurst wrote:
>They may not be now, but a company called Reid made quite a respectable
>rip-off of a screwmount Leica back in the 1950s - I think it was modelled
>on the IIIf. 

It was a copy of the III, and actually dates to the early 1940's -- the
Reid wasn't a "rip-off", as Reid was licensed by the British Government
(which had seized the British patent rights from Ernst Leitz UK at the
outbreak of the War).  A nice camera.

There are a large slew of British LTM lenses made by TTH, Wray, Ross, and
others, as well as a single offering, the Trinol, by Stewartry, to my
knowledge the ONLY Scottish LTM lens -- well, actually, it is a National
Optical lens made in the UK, but adapted to LTM by Stewartry.  My Trinol
came to live with me courtesy of another LUG member to whom I will be
ETERNALLY grateful!

Marc

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