Difference between revisions of "Vokar"
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* Vokar A (1940–) | * Vokar A (1940–) | ||
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* [[Voigt Junior]] (1946-)<ref>[http://wphs-tucson.blogspot.com/2009/06/argus-vershoor-and-vokar.html Western Photographic Historical Society]</ref> | * [[Voigt Junior]] (1946-)<ref>[http://wphs-tucson.blogspot.com/2009/06/argus-vershoor-and-vokar.html Western Photographic Historical Society]</ref> | ||
* [[Wirgin]] [[Wirgin_Junior| Junior]] (a Voigt Junior Variant) (1946-)<ref>[http://www.cameramanuals.org/pdf_files/wirgin_junior.pdf Manual for the Wirgin Junior at OrphanCameras]</ref> | * [[Wirgin]] [[Wirgin_Junior| Junior]] (a Voigt Junior Variant) (1946-)<ref>[http://www.cameramanuals.org/pdf_files/wirgin_junior.pdf Manual for the Wirgin Junior at OrphanCameras]</ref> | ||
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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-) also sold as the Vokar I (advertised 1946 and 1947)
- Voigt Junior (1946-)[3]
- Wirgin Junior (a Voigt Junior Variant) (1946-)[4]
- Wirgin Deluxe (1946–) an Art Deco encased version of the Voigt Junior
- Vokar I (1947-)
- Vokar II (1948-)[5]
