According to a well respected UK technician who specialises in Leicas and the like, the Witness was not all that it could have been internally. He suggests that the original design was too expensive in production and corners were cut.
He went on on to say that later Reids, after Reid and Seigrist had been bought by someone (was it Rank?) suffered too.
Mind you, he would sat that wouldn't he...
Shame that.
As a boy I always wanted a Reid that I had seen in a Wallace Heaton catalogue...it sort of looked more up to date than my poor battered old Leica III that I still have which came from their second hand department out the back. Someone else must have fond memories of WH too...
Michael
