[rollei_list] Re: On This Day in 1909
- From: FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:48:02 +0000 (GMT)
Audi were not that successful and the brand name was bought by VW many years
ago. Today Audis are no more Audi than a modern Voigtlander lens is Voigtlander
;-)
Even less so in fact since at least the CV lenses are unique designs whereas
each model of Audi sits on a the same VW platform as do the sister Seat and
Skoda.
Frank
--- On Thu, 16/7/09, Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [rollei_list] On This Day in 1909
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, ZICG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, 16 July, 2009, 3:01 PM
> August Horch founded his auto works
> in Zwickau on this date. The concern was later renamed
> Audiwerke and was to become the pillar of a four-company
> merger brokered by the Weimar government in 1927, a year
> after they had compelled three fading camera companies to
> merge with ICA to form Zeiss Ikon. The Audi symbol --
> four intertwined rings -- still commemorates the merger.
>
> If only Zeiss Ikon had been as successful as has been
> Audi!
>
> Yup, I drive an '84 Audi. Hell, I'd be driving a
> Zeiss Ikon if they were still in business ....
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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