Thornton-Pickard
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The Thornton-Pickard Manufacturing Company was a camera maker based in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, UK. It made the famous Ruby and Rubyette hand cameras. The company made its own shutters, for example the patent Panoptic shutter or the Unit focal plane shutter. Many Thonton-Pickard cameras were equipped with Dallmeyer lenses.
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Camera list
- Royal Ruby stereo camera
- Stereo Unit Folding Ruby camera
- Ruby Reflex
- Junior Special Reflex
- Rubyette No. 1 Reflex camera
- Folding Ruby hand camera
- Focal-Plane Folding Ruby Tropical camera
- Nimrod Automan hand camera
- Safety Magazine camera
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Links
In English:
- Thornton-Pickard at Science & Industry Museum Manchester
In French:
- Camera at www.collection-appareils.fr
