| Olympus resumed camera production after World War II, and in 1948 it launched the Chrome Six, an enhanced version of the Olympus Six. The die-cast body brought significant improvements in precision and strength. All who saw the camera were impressed by the beauty of the body design, highlighted by aventurine chrome plating on the top and bottom surfaces. The growing popularity of photography in this period helped to turn the Chrome Six into a major hit product. Cameras came off the production line at the Suwa Plant in Nagano Prefecture and were packaged the same day and loaded onto trains for overnight delivery to camera stores in Tokyo. Buyers lined up outside the stores awaiting the arrival of each shipment of Chrome Six cameras. |
