Re: [Leica] MOOLY question [reply in detail] (short comment....)

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Too bad we can't get TTA to make a new version!
Dan
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From: MGMcGough@aol.com <MGMcGough@aol.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Thursday, June 10, 1999 1:12 AM
Subject: [Leica] MOOLY question [reply in detail]


>  MOOLY motors for the shorter body (3mm) Leica IIIa & IIIb were made from
>  1938 to to 1940.  They were chromed & had an easily lost transmission
arm.
>  A rarer version was made for the longer die cast body of the IIIc and
needed
>  no actuating arm as it was built-in. Some of these were made for the
German
>  Military in gray or black but these are very rare & sell for about $5000
>when-
>  ever they come on the market.  The lesser priced model (IIIa & IIIb) will
>sell
>  for between $900 & $2000 and the arm alone will cost you about $300 if
lost.
>
>  Both of these motors were wind-up clockwork type, giving 12 exposures per
>  wind.  There probably were less than 5000 motors made altogether with the
>  last very rare grey K's reaching the market as late as 1947.  Today they
are
>  an extremely desirable collectors item in the same price range as the
>Thambar
>  and remember that they never need batteries.
>
>   Mary Grace (de Milo)
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> KPETERS@huntel.net writes:
>>
>>  I didn't see any response to this question so I'm shooting again.
Perhaps
>> just too stupid of a question?  Were there Mooley motors made that would
>fit
>> a IIIf camera, if so how rare, and do they ever show up on the
market?????
>> thank you, Kent
>>