Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:54 PM 10/27/1999 -0700, Bill Carson wrote: >I asked the question this week as to whether Wild-Heerbrug still owned the old >E. Leitz Company?? Anyone know what happened to that alliance? Bill Carson > Well, around fifteen or twenty years back, Wild-Heerbrug was bought out by Cambridge PLC. Cambridge hived off the camera, lens, binocular, and slide-projector division of Leica in a management buy-out and retained the rest (microscopes and scientific gear). I believe the Ernst Leitz name is gone, though. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!