Re: Nishika/Nimslo, I say it's spinach (fwd)

[P3D Tony Shapps <call@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <9703261652.AA22640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, P3D Grant Campos
<gc6094@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>> Just a quick note as a company who prints both 3 and 4-lens lenticulars.
>> The problem in the U.K. is that 4-lenses were indelibly associated with
>> Nimslo,  into which the U.K. Government were 'conned' into sinking
>> something like 25,000,000 dollars.....it left a bad taste!
>> -- 
>> Tony Shapps
>
>
>Was it Nimslo or Nishika that did the dirty dead? I've heard that Nishika did 
>some 
>shadey things, but I hadn't heard that Nimslo was also guilty of dirty 
>dealings.> 
>
>
It was definately NIMSLO.   The British government put development funds
into building a special factory in Scotland for the Timex Coporation who
produced the original Nimslo cameras!  There were all sorts of deals
because the area was rated as 'depressed' and therefore subject to
official grants.....this was before the European Union was involved (who
now make special development grants for areas of large unemployment).

Out of interest,  a very similar situation happened in Northern Irleand
when John Delorean set up the factory for those cars (we,  The
Widescreen Centre,  have a customer who actually owns one....as used in
the film 'Back to the Future'....but I digress!).

The moral seems to be "if you want to borrow money,  ask for a real
large sum!"
-- 
Tony Shapps
http://www.wscreen.demon.co.uk


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