Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:25 AM 10/2/01 -0700, Brian Reid wrote: >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. Brian Hans P Rajner states that, "Reid & Sigrist, contrary to rumours, never copied the Leica with the permission of Leitz, never violated Leitz patent rights, nor helped itself to design documents recieved by Britain as war reparations." LEICA COPIES 38. However, Leitz patents were earlier forfeit under the Alien Properties' Act of 1939, so he does not rule out that such were ever used in the development of the Reid camera. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html