Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/28

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Subject: [Leica] USA
From: "Robert Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:29:33 +0100
 
Ken Iisaka wrote:
>>>
> In the early 1950s, before people associated "Made in Japan" with high
quality goods, a town in Japan was re-named U.S.A. so that their exports
could legitimately be labelled "Made in U.S.A.".
<<<<

The slum of Ulhasnagar in North Bombay which is an industrial centre and was
originally settled by Sindhi refugees from the new Pakistan at the time of
Partition used to label its products "Made by USA" where USA stood for
"Ulhasnagar Sindhi Association". I don't know if this practice persists.

Rob.