Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Equipment question....
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:41:01 -0400
References: <200107252023.f6PKN6x02023@hermes.toad.net> <2695801743.20010725220229@web-options.com>

At 02:41 PM 7/25/01 -0700, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
>IMO that's just myth.  It's hard to believe that the people making the
>cameras from #900,000 to #1,000,000 were any less skillful than those
>that were building the cameras after that.  I'd wager that many were
>the same crew. 

An interesting fact on this:  German industry received significant
tax-breaks from hiring war-disabled veterans.  Obviously, the utility of
such was limited in a steel mill or auto plant but most were perfectly
suited to producing and assembling fine scientific and photographic
apparatus.  Leitz hired a number of these guys, and they constituted the
bulk of the work force from the later 1940's until they retired 20 years
later.  These fellows were anxious to work, committed to quality labor, and
turned out, all in all, to have been a huge success which explains the
really high quality of Leica cameras in the 1950's.

Marc

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