Ah, I'm only up to Pentina, so that is a delight for me yet to behold! But
the "grab what you can" policy perhaps applied more to the mob who
eventually started producing Contax in Stuttgart - it was a knock-off of the
original Dresden model!
Piers
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From: Andrew Fildes [mailto:afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 March 2013 01:07
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Kiev 4
Indeed. There s a long standing belief that the Soviets played a sort of
grabbit, load it on a truck and run game but it was, in fact, all very
orderly and legally organised under appropriate war reparations legislation
and regulations. The Germanic origin of the Wrayflex, however, is much less
proper.
Andrew Fildes
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On 16/03/2013, at 2:16 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
> In short, the designs were legally obtained from Carl Zeiss, the
> machine tools were made to order for export to Kiev, and were
> initially set up in Saalfeld (not Dresden, not Jena) to demonstrate
> that they were fully functional, before being dismantled and
> reinstalled in Kiev. Some cameras were assembled in Saalfeld from the
> demonstration run, and some parts which were left over from the
demonstration run were used in Kiev.
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