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Message: <blockquote data-quote="typo" data-source="post: 2649657" data-attributes="member: 83808">I found this from a transcript of an interview with David Bushnell."Paul McGuire was the design engineer of the 7 x 35 prototype that we sent to Japan with a request to make such a binocular, which became the Custom model, the first model of our own design.  He also did the Custom Compact.  This would have been close to 1960.  We used him from time to time, but he was not on our staff.  Later on he worked for Tamron, designing their aspherical lens housing."<a href="http://www.europa.com/~telscope/bushnell.txt" target="_blank">http://www.europa.com/~telscope/bushnell.txt</a>David</blockquote>