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There are few Australian cameras. The '''Lexa 20''' from 1948 is one of them. It is a box camera, and for some reason, some examples are missing the film carrier. It takes 120 film.  
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There are few Australian cameras. The '''Lexa 20''' from 1948 is one of them. It is a box camera for 2¼x3¼-inch exposures on 120 film. For some reason, some examples are missing the film carrier.
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The camera was made by the '''Lexa Manufacturing Company Pty. Ltd.''' of 218 Latrobe Street, Melbourne.<ref>[http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12152255?searchTerm=%22Lexa%20Manufacturing%22&searchLimits= Advertisement by Lexa Manufacturing] as metal plating specialists, in the ''Argus'', Melbourne, 10 November 1945, p29, archived at the [http://trove.nla.gov.au/ National Library of Australia's 'Trove' service].</ref> The company was liquidated in 1950.<ref>[http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/22836232?searchTerm=%22Lexa%20Manufacturing%22&searchLimits= Advertisement] inviting tenders for the machinery including camera dies, as well as stock and goodwill, of Lexa Manufacturing,  in the ''Argus'', 17 June 1950, p25. The advertisement describes the company as being manufacturing jewellers in liquidation. Archived at Trove, as above.</ref>
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==Notes==
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*[http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/camera-3095-Lexa%20Manufacturing%20Co._Lexa%2020.html Lexa 20] at [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/carrousel/html/index_eng.php Collection Appareils]
  
Other Australian cameras included [[Dalka]], [[Astra]], [[ACMA|Sportshot Senior Twenty]], and [[Swiftshot]].
 
  
 
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Revision as of 17:44, 4 September 2016

There are few Australian cameras. The Lexa 20 from 1948 is one of them. It is a box camera for 2¼x3¼-inch exposures on 120 film. For some reason, some examples are missing the film carrier.

The camera was made by the Lexa Manufacturing Company Pty. Ltd. of 218 Latrobe Street, Melbourne.[1] The company was liquidated in 1950.[2]


Notes

  1. Advertisement by Lexa Manufacturing as metal plating specialists, in the Argus, Melbourne, 10 November 1945, p29, archived at the National Library of Australia's 'Trove' service.
  2. Advertisement inviting tenders for the machinery including camera dies, as well as stock and goodwill, of Lexa Manufacturing, in the Argus, 17 June 1950, p25. The advertisement describes the company as being manufacturing jewellers in liquidation. Archived at Trove, as above.

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