Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/06

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Gear I wish I'd kept.
From: raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)
Date: Fri Jul 6 03:27:47 2007
References: <AB29058F-4CFF-4A39-B7D5-879503019D49@optonline.net><DC4B73A4105FCE4FAE0CEF799BF84B36013F1EDF@case-email><001301c7bf23$d4127b10$6601a8c0@asus930><200707051851.l65IpniY030691@server1.waverley.reid.org> <001901c7bf66$289b3c20$6601a8c0@asus930>

I seem to recall reading that there was a certain British officer - the name 
I cannot recall - at the Volkswagen plant who also helped them to the the 
wheels turning again and introduced the marque to Britain.
All the best!
Raimo K
Personal photography homepage at:
http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho


>
> -----Original Message-----
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Gear I wish I'd kept.
>
<snip>
> The US Army sent in Emil Keller, then a Sergeant,
> Leitz enjoyed an almost seamless
> transition from wartime conditions to the Postwar
> life and it never suffered the sort of horrors
> experienced by Volkswagen AG.  A similar
> situation occurred in Braunschweig with the
> Franke & Heidecke and Voigtl?nder plants, which
> the British froze and secured.
<snip>
<
> Marc
> \
>
> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>
>



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