Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/20

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Makers of Leica Lenses
From: Jem Kime <jem.kime@cwcom.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:11:53 -0000

Guy,
I'm surprised you didn't know this one!

One afternoon, Max Berek was working on the computations for the lens, then 
realised he's misplaced his sin/cosine tables with the betting numbers down 
at the local Wetzlar dog track. Realising all that days mathematical 
endeavours were wasted he said,
"Heck! Tea, or maybe something stronger like Sharpo, Lagavullin, Schnapps 
or Gluewein".
He realised instantly the day's work had not been in vane, he'd hit upon an 
ideal name for the lens but due to the strict moral tone of 1920's Germany 
was unable to include any reference to achohol so left out the latter part 
of the sentence, and abbreviuated the former to HEK + T + OR.

Simple ;-)

Jem

- -----Original Message-----
From:	Guy Bennett [SMTP:gbennett@lainet.com]

Now, who'll have a go at Hektor?

Guy
L.A. (by the sea)