Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/18

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Subject: Re: For your amusement only
From: "Charles E. Albertson" <chucko@ricochet.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 19:46:51 -0700

This stuff is great! I think these guys are the ones now found at:

	http://www.theonion.com/

Chuck Albertson
Seattle, Wash.


At 05:43 PM 7/18/97 -0700, you wrote:
>More from the 1982 #2 issue of the Barnack & Berek Magazine!!!
>_________________________________________________________
>
>NEW THINGS FROM LEITZ
>
>by HEINZ RICHTER
>
>Dated April 1, 1982, the following information reached us:
>
>Leitz is going to enter the automobile market with a design of their own.
>An entirely new division has been created in Wetzlar, and it is hoped that
>the automobile will find acceptance among buyers of high quality
>automobiles.  As one spokesman revealed to us, it is hoped that with the
>Leitz car, the Leica does not have to be referred to any longer as the
>Rolls Royce or the Mercedes of cameras.