Van Neck
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Van Neck & Company was established in London in 1897, and became Peeling and Van Neck in 1919.
Van Neck made a strut-folding press camera with focal-plane shutter. The resemblance of this to the Goerz Ango camera is not accidental; after the First World War, Van Neck took over Goerz' London works and made cameras like this, at first called the British Anschutz.[1][2]
After the Second World War, the company made some metal-bodied, baseboard press/technical cameras, not unlike Crown and Speed Graphics in their features.[3] These cameras appear to have been made only in prototype quantity, however.
Notes
- ↑ Information on Peeling & Van Neck at Early Photography
- ↑ Peeling & Van Neck 'All Weather' press camera, 1945, with 6 and 11.5-inch Ross lenses (image, at Science & Society picture library) and details at the Museum of Science & Industry's Collections Online.
- ↑ Van Neck 4x5-inch press camera with baseboard, top coupled rangefinder and folding frame-finder, and without focal-plane shutter; lot 22 in the sale The British Camera 1840-1960; the Jim Barron Collection by Christies, 11 December 2002. Lots 23-25 (navigate with the right-arrow, near top right of page) were also Van Neck press cameras: lot 23 a similar 4x5-inch camera, but with both focal-plane and lens shutters (and black covering); lot 24 as lot 22 but quarter-plate; lot 24 with black leather.
