Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Does anyone know the history or info about the Reid Leica copy ca meras?
From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 07:25:58 -0700
References: <4D2DC4211C50D311A64C0008C75D6BC507EDE537@m07.ibx.com>

> plus I heard that the English used drawings
> stolen from Leica themselves :\

I've looked into the "Reid" Leica copies. Sure wish I had one.

The drawings weren't stolen from Leica. They were captured from the Germans
when the Allied armies took Wetzlar.

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