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* Vokar A (1940–)
 
* Vokar A (1940–)
 
* Vokar B (1946-)
 
* Vokar B (1946-)
* Voigt Junior (1946-) <ref>[http://wphs-tucson.blogspot.com/2009/06/argus-vershoor-and-vokar.html Western Photographic Hstorical Society]</ref>
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* [[Voigt Junior]] (1946-) <ref>[http://wphs-tucson.blogspot.com/2009/06/argus-vershoor-and-vokar.html Western Photographic Hstorical Society]</ref>
 
* [[Wirgin]] Deluxe (a Voigt Junior Variant)
 
* [[Wirgin]] Deluxe (a Voigt Junior Variant)
 
* Vokar I (1947-)
 
* Vokar I (1947-)

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The Vokar Corporation was a camera brand based in Dexter, Michigan from 1943 to the mid 1950s[1]. Prior to 1943, it had been the Verschoor Corporation, and before 1942 had been the electronics branch of the International Research Corporation, whose camera division became Argus.

Charles A Verschoor had envisoned the Argus A, introduced in 1936, and his company designed the camera that became the Argus C3 in 1939. After management problems, Verschoor ran the electronics division - which produced cameras of its own and was eventually renamed Vokar after Veschoor's death. The company went bankrupt in 1950.[2]

Cameras

  • Vokar A (1940–)
  • Vokar B (1946-)
  • Voigt Junior (1946-) [3]
  • Wirgin Deluxe (a Voigt Junior Variant)
  • Vokar I (1947-)
  • Vokar II (1948-)[4]

Notes and References