MICRO PRECISION PRODUCTS LIMITED

A Brief History

 

Micro Precision Products Limited was formed after World War II to produce photographic products. It was substantially owned by Mr. P. de Laszlo and later by Mr. A. J. Dell, who was also Works Manager.

MicroFlex 6 x 6 camera.

Mr. de Laszlo also owned the Celestion Company which manufactured radio and electronic components, one line being Rola Celestion loudspeakers. (See the link to the Celestion Co. website at the Other Links page.)

 

The Company developed at Kingston-on-Thames, near London, U.K., making tripods, enlargers, projectors, 5 x 4 MicroTechnical and MicroPress, monorail and 6 x 6 TLR cameras as well as specialist photographic equipment for the British armed forces and the police and Prison Service.

In 1949 it was at 145 London Road, Kingston-on-Thames. Later the Company moved to Lydden Road, Wandsworth, London about 1973/4. Cameras were available well into the 1980's.

It acheived really high precision, professional products, which have proved genuinely long lived. Many of them are still in every day use by professionals and amateurs.

Sadly, production seeems to have ended with the death of Mr. Dell in 1988.