[rollei_list] Re: Disturbing News

At 13:33 Uhr -0500 8.11.2009, Marc James Small wrote:
>At 03:51 PM 11/6/2009, Hauke Fath wrote:
>
> >Well, there is no continuity. Zeiss Ikon went bankrupt in the
> >mid-seventies, and there is not a trace of its engineering potential left.
>
>Shocking news!  Tell me more!  I wrote the book
>on the firm,

_The_ book, no less? Got an ISBN?

>but never knew they filed bankrutcy!

Well, even if it wasn't formal, you could say it was the moral equivalent
of bankrupcy.  ;)

Zeiss Ikon AG shut down the camera manufacturing effectively in 1971, after
spinning off the Voigtländer fab in Braunschweig to F&H (eine Danaer-Gabe).

What's left of Zeiss Ikon manufacturing today produces locks
<http://www.ikon.de/index.php?key=historie&lang=en>.

        hauke

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"It's never straight up and down"     (DEVO)


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