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1951-60. ALUMINIUM ROLLFILM CAMERA | 127. Included for the same reasons as the Purma Special (qv) the "Plus" followed as an updated and improved model, to sell at £12.12s. Its red trim marks it as the last in a series of three models of the same name. With double-exposure prevention and a patent focal-plane, gravity assisted, three speed shutter, its top speed of 1/500 was unique among "cheap" cameras at the time. Unlike the all bakelite Purma "Special", and weighing about as much as the average brick, it looked and felt like a "proper" 35mm camera, which would have made it very attractive, when imported Leicas, Contaxes etc. costing at least ten times as much, were by Government decree available only to professional photographers. As this restriction was lifted in the late 50s, the camera became less desirable than some imported cameras, and production ran down and finally ceased between 1958 and 1960, when the company moved into light engineering under the name of Purma Precision Engineers.

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