Bilora

KÜRBI & NIGGELOH BILORA GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	February 1, 1909
Seat	Remscheid (since April 1, 2014)
management	Managing director: Carsten Reck
Number of employees	70
Branch	Photo accessories / plastic processing
Website	bilora.de bilora.com

Today Bilora is a manufacturer of photo accessories and plastic parts and from 1909 to 1991 was one of the leading manufacturers of camera tripods , which have been produced by licensees ever since. Photo cameras were also manufactured from 1935 to 1975 . Until the beginning of 2014 the company was based in Radevormwald . Since April 1, 2014, it has been in neighboring Remscheid . The name "Bilora" consists of parts of the names Kür bi Nigge lo h Ra devormwald.

history

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On February 1, 1909, the company was founded in Barmen-Rittershausen as Kürbi & Niggeloh. In addition to stands, music stands, hat and postcard stands were also manufactured. In November 1911 the company in Radevormwald received the building permit for a new factory building; that is where the company's headquarters are to this day. In 1919 the name was changed to "Bilora". In 1935 the first camera, the Bilora Box, was made. In 1939, with the outbreak of the Second World War, the rulers switched production to "war-essential" material. From then on antennas and telescopic antennas were manufactured.

After the Second World War, air pumps and jet regulators for taps were only manufactured. Camera production did not start again until 1946. In 1956 the 1,000,000th 6 × 9 box was manufactured. In the 1960s, cameras etc. a. produced for Agfa , Zeiss Ikon and Yashica .

As a result of the increasing importance of plastics, Bilora set up its own plastics production and processing facility in 1965. In 1975 camera production ended; From then on, Bilora focused on the production of tripods, camera accessories and plastics processing. Three years later, the company was expanded to include a second plastics processing plant. Most recently, in 1991, this factory was expanded to over 4000 m² of production space and 3500 m² of assembly and storage space.

Products

Bilora box

Bilora box, inner workings

Bilora Bella 4 × 4 roll film 127

Bilora Boy 4 × 4 roll film 127

• Cameras
• Tripods
• Camera bags and backpacks
• Flash units
• Charger
• Binoculars
• Compasses
• Plastic parts
  • Syringes
  • Machining
  • Hybrid parts plastic-metal

Web links

Commons : Bilora  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• bilora.de
• bilora.com
• Bilora cameras on kameraschaetze.de
• Timeline of camera production from 1946 and descriptions of the models (French)

Footnotes

Remarks

1. ↑ See also the tripods in the product range on bilora.de , accessed on April 28, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 100 years - technology made of plastic and metal . From bilora.com, accessed April 28, 2018
2. ↑ You are in good business with us . At bilora.de, accessed on April 28, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Kurt Tauber: BILORA - a German company with world fame . From kameramuseum.de, accessed on April 28, 2018
4. ↑ Bilora built cameras until 1975 . On October 4, 2017 from stadtnetz-radevormwald.de, accessed on April 28, 2018