Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:48 PM 8/11/1999 -0400, Ray Rubey wrote: >(Auto Union is now Audi) With dread at restarting the Great Rover Thread (and I learned to drive on a REAL Rover, a 2000TC, back in the Red Dog Saloon era), I am a content partner with an '84 Audi 4000S yclept Clytemnestra and desire no finer car, as My Lady answers all my needs and desires. Auto Union has ALWAYS been "Audi", and vice-versa. "Audi" is simply the German manner of saying the name, and, yes, in the same tone, "Nazi" was the German manner of saying "National Social Democratic Worker's Party"! The Camera Connexion is a simple one: in 1926, the German gummit determined to save ailing industries by compelling them to merge. Four car companies were thus merged into Auto-Union, as reflected in the four-circle logo carried by Audi's to this day. And, that same year, four camera companies were forced to merge into a Zeiss-dominated entity, Zeiss Ikon. The four were ICA, already Zeiss-owned, and three in which the Zeiss Foundation held minority interests: CP Goerz, Ernemann, and Contessa-Nettel. (The majority stockholder in the last went on to make the first camera known to be carried to the summit of Mount Everest, but that is a tale for another day!) The early '80's Audi 4000S may well be the closest thing to automotive perfection yet built. Mine has 200,000 miles (325,000 km, give or take) on the clock, and is chomping for another roll-over on the odometer. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!