Heiland use to make flash guns, then strobs. They expanded
to selling Pentax in the late fifties (I think). Honeywell
bought them out about 1963 or so and became the Pentax
distributor and continued to make the strobs untill the late
seventies (78?) when they sold those to Rollei. They had
given up the Pentax distribution some years earlier (prior
to the K series I think).
--Tom
"Gary L. Murphy" wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 May 2001 19:30:40 -0600, Joseph Tainter wrote:
>
> >Today in a camera store I found an old, metal, push-on 49 mm. lens cap
> >labeled Heiland Pentax. Does anyone know what this company was, and when
> >they were the importer?
>
> If memory serves, they were a division of Honeywell. They, Honeywell later dropped
>the Heiland name and
> started using the Honeywell name.
>
> Of course, if my memory is wrong, I'm sure I'll be placed on the correct path. :-)
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