Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir!