Additional memo from Mr. Gumbinner 18 Germany

In Germany there was a large printing fair called Drupa held every five years in Dusseldorf.  There were many buildings on several acres.  To get a room in Dusseldorf it was necessary to reserve for the next fair.  Mr. Halpern met at the fair two men who were making electrolytic etched aluminum offset plates.  In Germany positive working plates were widely used.  Mr. Halpern arranged to buy their company.  I believe it was called Alpha.  At the same time he asked Gestetner to be part owners.  Mr Gestetner was not intererested in offset.  He then made an arrangement with Ilford which was the equivalent of Kodak in England to invest.  The owner of Alpha (I believe his name was Aurich was asked to find a site for a plant to make the negative working aluminum lithographic plates.  He told me he needed a large amount of water.  He chose Osterode, a city in the Harz mountains, a few miles from the East German border where there was a large reservoir.  I t was fairly near Berlin where he lived.    He picked part of an industrial building in Freiheit a suburb.  Ilford sent two or three of their employees to help set up the tank line.