Christoph Beck & Sons
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| legal form | KG |
| founding | March 31, 1892 |
| resolution | 1985 |
| Seat | kassel |
| management | Franz Beck, Erhard Beck |
| Number of employees | about 100 |
| Branch | optics |
The company Christoph Beck & Söhne (CBS) in Kassel was a German manufacturer of opera and binoculars as well as magnifying glasses and microscopes .
history
CBS was founded on March 31, 1892 in Kassel, the 25-year-old Georg Christoph Beck set up a precision engineering workshop in his father's house, Schlachthofstrasse 32. Chr. Beck & Sons became a widely valued supplier of binoculars and microscopes. During the Second World War , service glasses were made with the coding -fvx-. After the factory was destroyed in the Second World War, production was resumed in 1948 and the company's headquarters were moved to Wilhelmshöher Allee 38–42 in Kassel. In the 1960s, binoculars, microscopes and magnifying glasses were again manufactured by around 100 employees and sold worldwide. The company had its own optics department, in which the lenses were ground and coated.
The opera and binocular series were called z. B. Rubin, Dilecto, Mercur, Condor or Hunting Falcon and were built in all variations. The TORDALK 11x80 or 22x80 series was particularly popular and had top optical values at a sales price of almost 1700 DM at the time (average income 1970 - approx. 1100 DM / month). Departments such as tool making , electroplating , paint shop , turning and precision mechanics allowed a high level of vertical integration . Only the binocular body, made of a special aluminum - magnesium - alloy passed to be particularly light and stable were as blanks delivered.
The products were individually assembled by hand in several assembly departments. Binoculars and microscopes had very small manufacturing tolerances and were sometimes put together with the help of optical centering aids . Due to the high dimensional accuracy and quality of the components, color fringing and distortions could be avoided. At the end of the 1970s, the company could no longer keep up in terms of price in the emerging mass market and had sales problems. The last attempt was made by Chr. Beck & Sons to produce steam locomotive models for gauge 1. This also succeeded in small numbers before it ceased operations in 1985 or was bought up by Hertel & Reuss .
Individual evidence
- ↑ (City Chronicle)