It is well known among camera collectors that the Wrayflex, built at Wray (Optical Works) Ltd at Bromley in Kent, was the only serious attempt in England at manufacturing a 35mm single lens reflex camera. What is not so widely appreciated is who designed it, what led up to it, why a company better known for making lenses took it on in the first place and how it came to develop in such an eccentric fashion. This book sets to answers those questions, detailing and illustrating along the way a great deal of previously undocumented information, ranging from up-until-now unknown and lost prototypes to the way Wrayflexes played their part in the American space programme. 

John Wade is the former Editor of Photography magazine and is now a well-known and respected writer and author on the history of the camera and photography. He has published numerous illustrated articles for the British and American photo press, as well as six previous books on photographic history.