pgk Posted January 15, 2014 Share #81 Posted January 15, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) I believe that in the 1950s there was a town in Japan named Usa which was often utilised when things had to be stamped 'Made in....." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 15, 2014 Posted January 15, 2014 Hi pgk, Take a look here Leica Camera - Made in Portugal (NOT Germany). I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
george + Posted January 15, 2014 Share #82 Posted January 15, 2014 My M grip box, and a lovely box at that, has "Made in Portugal" on the outside. The grip has "Leica Camera Germany" on it - on the inside. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted January 15, 2014 Share #83 Posted January 15, 2014 I believe that in the 1950s there was a town in Japan named Usa which was often utilised when things had to be stamped 'Made in....." I was told the same thing in the Fifties, but it was clearly a facetious claim. It was true that for several post WWII years, some Japanese goods were rather low quality. Being a curious boy, I took apart toys to find, for example, the tin items were re-purposed printed Coke cans. Clever, actually. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheshireCat Posted January 15, 2014 Share #84 Posted January 15, 2014 I believe that in the 1950s there was a town in Japan named Usa which was often utilised when things had to be stamped 'Made in....." That reminds me of the Writeback Cache RAM for i486 motherboards in the nineties. Well, "Writeback" was the name of the company and the cache was far from writeback Sorry for the nerdy post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted January 15, 2014 Share #85 Posted January 15, 2014 This rather sloppy headline in German newspaper "Die Zeit" in 1958 (Solingen Also In Japan) was the cause of a rumour that Japan had renamed a town in order to mark cutlery "made in Solingen". In reality the article just mentioned that a heavy German trade delegation had compared a German knife and its copy. „Solingen“ auch in Japan | DIE ZEIT Archiv | Ausgabe 46/1958 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ash Posted January 15, 2014 Share #86 Posted January 15, 2014 I just heard a sack of rice fell over in China. It was not revealed whether its content was Made in China. Regards, Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted January 15, 2014 Share #87 Posted January 15, 2014 Advertisement (gone after registration) I'd like to know where the air that was delivered inside my camera was made! If it's low quality air from one of those low-quality-air-making countries I will definitely not be happy. I hope the air in the camera is covered under the Leica warranty because if it goes faulty I won't be happy having to pay for the air to be replaced with new or repaired air! Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted January 16, 2014 Share #88 Posted January 16, 2014 I'd like to know where the air that was delivered inside my camera was made!. OMG! Check your car's tires! Were they filled in another country? Seriously, during the summer we fill our's with nitrogen. Actually 78% nitrogen. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted January 16, 2014 Share #89 Posted January 16, 2014 And you wash your car with Dihydrogen Monoxide, I presume. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted January 16, 2014 Share #90 Posted January 16, 2014 Philipp, I go one stage further and mix the dihydrogen monoxide with linear sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate to wash my car. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pop Posted January 16, 2014 Share #91 Posted January 16, 2014 Gosh! And you're still alive! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo Posted January 16, 2014 Share #92 Posted January 16, 2014 Gosh! And you're still alive! We have seen proof Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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