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Alex,

A PS to my last.  I too visited the Freiberg factory in 1992, prior
to aligning ourselves with the Chinese, just to see what options
there were should the Chinese be too demanding.  Almost no one spoke
english, only German and Russian. They found one young Czech man in
the X-ray division who said he could translate for me as long as I
wasn't British.

Ken
On Apr 16, 2012, at 5:20 PM, eremenko@math.purdue.edu wrote:

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> Ken,
> Thanks for the interesting information, only one point to make it
> precise:
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>> 1.  In the mid eighties I was told by a British sextant importer (who
>> was very knowledgeable), that the German Hydrographic Office allowed
>> sextant manufacturers who produced sextants with no more than 20"
>
> In the middle 80-s there were two independent German states.
> Whose Hydrographic Office made this rule?
>
> Alex.
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