[HUG] Re: "Sir John" Noble Is Dead

At 04:28 PM 11/18/2007, Frank Filippone wrote:
>Destined for failure...... Nice epitaph for a business man.....
>

Frank
It is interesting. Zeiss hived off the old Eisfeld binocular works to an auto-headlight company in Wetzlar run by a fellow named Docter. They handed over to him all of the miscellaneous production of CZJ large-format lenses and the like. These included the lenses used by "Sir John" in the Noblex. Docter kept telling Noble that once the stock of these lenses were gone, they were gone, vanished, spurlos versunkt, unavailable, never again. Docter did not MAKE lenses -- these had been produced at Carl Zeiss Jena and the Zeiss guys shut down lens production there straightway they recovered control of the works.
Docter had its own problems once the owner died but has survived: the headlamp business went to a consortium headed by Rodenstock, and the binocular works to a firm now again controlled by the Zeiss Foundation. The circle is complete, I guess!
(A minor sidelight: the 8x,21mm TURMON folding monocular, first produced at Jena in 1921, remains in production under the Docter label at Eisfeld to this day. What other industrial product has a continuous life of 86 years? I got a LOT of great stuff when the Zeiss entities were merging but, shucks, even a dimbulb like me understood that these were one-time offerings.) 

Marc


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