Leica Wartime Production and Allied Occupation

[chippy]

I don`t know what you are talking about with a BLUE Leica???

if you hadn't deleted the thread with years of other RFF members input to place in your book, then you could reference what i am talking about there, as it is i am not going to repeat myself. I hope you give due credit to other RFF members (in general) for suppling and helping you with information for your book and presumably money making venture.

 

[Doug]

Gentlemen, with respect... the discussion has become a bit overheated, please exercise restraint. Some editing done. Thanks!

 

[johannielscom]

Thanks Doug. Looking forward to resuming the discussions on the original subject.

 

[johannielscom]

Balls

Balls

So, how about those ball bearing Kugellager cameras?

They've been discussed here, and after some transition period 😀 they can be discussed here.

Believe it or not, I've never actually seen the darn things!

Can I have some pictures, pretty please?

 

[splitimageview]

A clutch. 😉

 

[johannielscom]

Nice, Robert!

These all IIIcK's? Get used on a regular basis? Nice shot!

 

[Marc James Small]

Leitz was advised of slow shutter releases on Leica cameras in northern Norway during the winter of 1940/41. Leitz then replaced the pin bearings -- a simple hole in the crate with a simple pin going through it tos upport the shutter mechanism -- with a double ball-bearing race, thus founding the vaunted "IIIcK" camera. After the War, Leitz learned that only ONE side of the shutter needed to be made with ball bearings, and so Postwar IIIc's and all subsequent Leicas through the M6 had one pin-bearing shutter and one ball-bearing shutter. It is a LOT cheaper to use pin bearings than to use ball bearings! And bear in mind that Volkswagen developed a split Number 3 main at the same time to permit low-temperature operaton of its vehicles. VW scholars know that the #3 main is a rign bearing which is only installed when the crank is unscrewed. Well, VW STILL supplies a split #3 for air-cooled engines. I believe the 1600cc Zambonis use them.

 

[splitimageview]

Double clutch.

 

[LeicaTom]

Double clutch.

There's three hotties.......nice 43' LE cam and that 43' Sonnar is looking really nice on that 45' US Army one 🙂

Tom

 

[helen.HH]

Three Beauties Tom
but I must ask
where are your FAB Retro Pin Up style shots as of Late....

Best - helen

 

[rgraphex]

An old thread
Leica wartime stepper iiic .
serial number 3961xx this one belonged to US Major Andrew Park. I don't know if anyone is keeping track of these but there interesting I have a second body similar serial number that I gotten elsewhere.

I heard that the chrome on IIIc were poor the both that I have are very nice in fact the one that belonged to Major Park looks like new other then the dust I had to wipe off. The camera is in such good shape it can not have been used for service. Could these have been gifts? or just bought at a PX?

Is there any literature on these cameras made during occupation?

 

[David Hughes]

...Is there any literature on these cameras made during occupation?

Hi,

It depends how you define occupation as there are still good few thousand US troops etc in Germany.

BTW, there's a huge number of books about Leica and its history; most of them cover the war and post war period.

Regards, David

 

[johannielscom]

Yes,I do.....alles will be revealed once our book is published, you can assume nothing during WW2, it's simply a miracle that Leitz even produced and delivered cameras after Stalingrad........

Tom

still waiting on that book of yours, LeicaTom...😱

 

[Dralowid]

Is LeicaTom still around? I thought he had been seduced by an early VW Beetle!

 

[johannielscom]

Is LeicaTom still around? I thought he had been seduced by an early VW Beetle!

He's usually showing off at facebook these days, possibly driving the Beetle and most definitely riding the reputation he acquired here. A decade down the road, still no book in sight.