[rollei_list] AW: Re: AW: Re: Rollei Singapore

  • From: <Dirk-Roger.Schmitt@xxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:01:22 +0000

By the way,

the lay-out of the factory with the middle road and the left and right wing 
buildings looks very similiar as the factory lay-out in Braunschweig at 
Salzdahlumer Strasse.

Dirk



Carlos,
thanks, this is an impressive photo.
Dirk


Dirk-Roger Schmitt

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Dirk:
         Claus Prochnow's book "Rollei 35 , a Camera History" (Rollei 35, Eine 
Kamera Geschichte) has several photographs about the Rollei facilities at 
Singapore and the production lines, this is one of the few differences 
regarding the Rollei 35 in the Report 3, Report 3 does not have these 
photographs, the other difference is color photographs, the Rollei 35 camera 
history book has several color photos about the cameras. They were big and very 
modern bulidings, the rented ones and the Rollei builidings. It's difficult to 
find photographs about Rollei Singapore plants in the Web. I could see 
photographs about the Chai Chee Technopark today, some buildings look very 
similar to the Rollei ones, but the images angles are different regarding the 
book and the surrounding area has some changes too, and then I'm not 100% sure 
if they are the same buildings.

Anyway, I have added to my Rollei SL 35 system blog a photograph, from a Rollei 
brochure, about the Rollei Singapore main plant first stage on Chai Chee Road 
on March 1973, a larger area was still under construction at the time. It's the 
 _last photograph_  in the blog, click on the thumbnail for a larger image:

http://rolleiflexsl35system.blogspot.com.ar/2011/06/rolleiflex-sl-35-system.html

Carlos


2013/9/27  <Dirk-Roger.Schmitt@xxxxxx>:
> Thanks,
>
> that helps.
> Are there any photographs?
>
> There is very few photographic material to be found from that time.
>
> Dirk
>
>
> Dirk-Roger Schmitt
>
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> Gesendet: Freitag, 27. September 2013 19:48
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>
> Hello Dirk:
>                  The former main Rollei factory (Rollei being the
> owner) was at the Chai Chee neighbourhood, on the Chai Chee Road, within 
> Bedok New Town in Singapore, it was where the Chai Chee Technopark is today, 
> however Rollei 35 and Rollei B35 production started in a rented building at 
> Alexandra Road 315 in Singapore.
>
> This is a Singapore map, you can see a marked area for Chai Chee,you can also 
> see the Chai Chee Technopark within this area, this is the exact site for the 
> former Rollei main factory:
> http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel_main.php?zone
> name=Chai+Chee
>
> A closer view:
> http://www.streetdirectory.com/sg/technopark-chai-chee/750-chai-chee-r
> oad-469000/8963_75674.html
>
> This a Chai Chee article in Wiki-Pedia where Rollei and Varta factories are 
> mentioned:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_Chee
>
> I have seen some Chai Chee Technopark current photographs, I think the Rollei 
> buildings are still there, with a few modifications perhaps, but I'm not 100% 
> sure about it, anyway that is the Rollei historical site.
> Rollei manufactured cameras, shutters and lenses at Chai Chee; lenses 
> manufacture started in a rented building at Indus Road, but when Rollei 
> completed the main facilities at Chai Chee Road, Rollei Optical Co moved 
> there too.
>
>
> The Alu- Guss or Rolle Alu-Druckgusswerk had a separated new building at 
> Singapore outskirts due to Singapore's environmental laws, in the city's 
> Jurong district. It was a smaller plant than the main factory BTW.
>
> I hope this helps
>
> Carlos
>
> 2013/9/27  <Dirk-Roger.Schmitt@xxxxxx>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> a colleague of  mine is going to visit Singapore.
>>
>> Is there any place to which I can send him for a search about Rollei's 
>> history there?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>>
>> Dirk-Roger Schmitt
>>
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