Say it ain't so!
I was perusing a newly-discovered online 1960 Century Lighting catalog which contains this page:
I'm not sure even @JonCarter or @STEVETERRY are old enough to know of these.
But a long-time mystery of mine has finally been solved, "Why was the most common Kliegl Bros. ERS the 1355 equivalent to a 6x8 (single lens), when everyone else was 6x9 (double lens)? Kliegl was copying a nearly ten year-old Century practice.
I was perusing a newly-discovered online 1960 Century Lighting catalog which contains this page:
I'm not sure even @JonCarter or @STEVETERRY are old enough to know of these.
But a long-time mystery of mine has finally been solved, "Why was the most common Kliegl Bros. ERS the 1355 equivalent to a 6x8 (single lens), when everyone else was 6x9 (double lens)? Kliegl was copying a nearly ten year-old Century practice.