Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Projector Lens Update: Which, What, Where, Who and Why
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:26:36 -0500

At 02:51 PM 1/11/2000 -0700, John Collier wrote:
>
>    "When Leica bought the Braunschweig 'ZETT' factory in 1990," Schmalz
>continues, 

This Braunschweig plant began as the Voigtlander slide-projector plant,
passed into the hands of Zeiss-Ikon-Voigtlander when they were merged, was
retained by Zeiss Ikon when it was taken out of camera production and
divested of Voigtlander.  A consortium then purchased the branded remnants
of Zeiss Ikon, and, when Zeiss refused to surrender the "Zeiss Ikon"
trademark, adopted the old Voigtlander brand of "Zett".  Leica bought Zett
out early in this decade.  

Thus, Leica now ones the remnants of Zeiss Ikon, a poignant but rather
amusing bit of photographic trivia.

Marc

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