Sakospirit,
Some nostalgia:
HerexB4s some of the content of a letter addressed by Jan Winter on August 29,1959:
" Chairman, Board of Directors
Oy Sako Ab
Riihimaki, Finland
Dear Sir:
The enclosed CONSUMER REPORTS for September, 1959, carries beginning of page 480, a report on rifles. A Check Rating, as that given to the Sako rifle, is as great a business compliment as can be expected in the United States, and therefore it is much coveted in the industry. Consumers Union, the
publishers of the REPORTS, is an independent organization and their ratings cannot be bought for love or money. Nor, as you will notice in the masthead, can their findings be advertised in any manner.
Even without it, though, the rating given Sako will have, we assure you, a great impact on the trade and on consumers. We will help it along by purchasing on the news stands large quantities of the REPORTS to be mailed out to the trade.
This is, perhaps, as opportune a time as any to express our deep appreciation for the cooperation of
the staff of Sako who made, each in their own capacity, the Sako name a symbol of quality throughout
the U.S. shooting world.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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that made it possible for us, by starting from little more than zero, to reach the point where Sako rifles
are now respected as among the best designed and best functioning.
With best wishes, I am
Yours sincerely,
FIREARMS INTERNATIONAL
Jan Winter
President
JW:aw
Enclosures "
The Spirit was there.....
Brgds,
SS