Here's where our leather is from

[Douglas]

The original Roser leather factory:

http://www.griese-es.de/esslingen/0506.jpg

I guess the MB Tex-covered "cows" were at a different site.


Douglas Kim
New York, NY
280 SL #016220

[Mike Hughes]

I understood that the "Tex" came from a specially bred naugha herd developed by descendants of some German immigants who settled in Texas after the Civil War.

- Mike Hughes  -ô¿ô-
  1966 230SL Auto P/S
  Havanna Brown (408)
  Light Beige (181)
  Cream M-B Tex (121)