Leica LTM Leitz sumptuous item name codes

[lxmike]

Firstly, it was best for telegrams as 5 unit codes counted as one word. And letters were simpler to transmit by hand in Morse.

Secondly, numbers are limited to a few thousand combinations (10x10x10x10x10) and letters mean 26x26x26x26x26.

Lastly, these codes were commonplace in the days of telegrams; f'instance Bentley's and C&W's.

I used C&W's a lot for international work when I was a civil servant. Copies of the code books were rare and people who had them would auction them off on retirement. Luckily you could remember the common ones; for example TUNHO meant do you agree? or I/we agree. I could type that in my sleep in the 60's and often did...

Regards, David

thanks David a very interesting insight

 

[lxmike]

If they were still using code names today, I guess the M9 might have been KAPUT for a while, until the sensors got fixed.

 

[lxmike]

I like that. And anything going to Leica USA could be listed as SNAFU.

PF

 

[lxmike]

https://leicarumors.com/wp-content/...t-Leica-M3-ever-produced-on-sale-on-eBay5.jpg
from: https://leicarumors.com/2018/06/01/...is-currently-on-sale-on-ebay-for-595000.aspx/

See also this here:
http://www.ernst-leitz-wetzlar.de/kataloge/microtomes/index.htm

great links thanks for sharing

 

[Dralowid]

microtome, london

was the telegraphic address of Leitz for their Mortimer Street office

I found a photographic on-line of a letter headed paper to do with the sale of the last M3 camera or some such - I'd struggle to find it again as I can't remember what combination of words I used to search for the information…

Regards

Andrew C. More

Excellent bit of research, it is all out there somewhere!