Re: Impossible M3???
As to Canadian Wetzlar-marked cameras, this is the story I have heard somewhere:
Sometime the BRD government (or the Hessian government) considered an administrative boundary reform which would have merged a cluster of communities in the Lahn Valley, including Wetzlar, into a larger entity called 'Lahnstadt'. Leitz, being aware that the marking 'Ernst Leitz Wetzlar' carried a goodwill that 'Ernst Leitz Lahnstadt' would not carry, did actually officially change their name from 'Ernst Leitz' to 'Ernst Leitz Wetzlar'! So even the Midland operation became a part of 'Ernst Leitz Wetzlar' and its products were duly marked thus. Local protests did scotch the town-fusion project however.
The old man from th Age of Ernst Leitz II
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