Motor Winder for Leica IIIc?

[winger]

My dad loves W.E.B. Griffin books and is reading now where a character was taking pictures of people walking off an airplane and was using a IIIc (I think) with a motor winder. He asked me if this was possible and I don't know. I believe the book is set in the 30s in South America, but he didn't mention the title.
I'm SURE someone here knows.

 

[tessar]

This would have been the spring-driven MOOLY winder:
https://www.cameraquest.com/mooly.htm

 

[winger]

Wow, that was fast even for APUG! Thank you very much, tessar!

 

[GRHazelton]

Spring wind advance! Brings to mind the Robot, and of course what was probably the first 35mm SLR system, the Praktina. Here's a link: http://www.praktina.com/h04_main.htm I vaguely remember seeing one in use with a bulk back for taking student pix at my high school in the dim past, that is to say in the late 1950s. IIRC a very handsome camera, but no instant mirror return.

Were there other spring powered cameras?

Among oddities, I think that there was a 35mm rangefinder by Graphic, perhaps, which used a CO2 bulb to power the advance! Yes! The incredible Mike Butkus has the manual for it http://www.butkus.org/chinon/graflex/graphic_35_jet/graphic_35_jet.htm Now, if you can find the camera you can be the first on your block to own a proto steam punkcamera! Well, almost.....

 

[cuthbert]

You guys are forgetting the spring powered rangefinder Leningrad.

Unfortunately the motordrive is also the worst part of this camera, that nevertheless has one of the best viewfinder and rangefinder I've ever seen.

 

[Sewin]

Here's my spring powered camera. I get 8 shots after one winding.
I like it a lot

 

[elcabezagrande]

The Kodak Motormatic, and the Ricoh Auto Half aka Ansco Memo II have spring driven auto wind.

 

[Someonenameddavid]

Not to forget the very best, the Bell and Howell Foton of 1949. $700 new.