Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:53 PM 1998-08-21 -0500, Eric Welch wrote: >But wasn't there a period (SL2 and M5) in >the mid-70s where Leica almost closed its doors? Until the early 1960's, the Leitz family took a modest fortune out of the Leitz factory. From the early 1960's to the early 1980's, the Leitz family lost a modest fortune under-writing the Leitz factory. Which is, after all, why they sold it and why there is no longer a Leitz camera factory! Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!