1939 Allcocks Match Aerial 9053 T1 Unmarked.

[JockScott]

I would be interested to find out what number yours is ????

[Nobby]

The 9053 type 1 was a whopping £2.10p when is was new in 1939.........I should have ordered a dozen....
In the same year the 4" popular was the same price but the 7950 T10 was 75p. more That is a full 35% more...... Odd when you consider from a manufacturing point of view it was a lot quicker to make a pop or a T10 and that is when labour costs were comparatively very little...
You have to wonder where Allcocks viewed the future with or without ww2... The t10 continued until two years after ww2...
js

That might explain why when the Aerial C815 was first launched...they illustrated it in the Guide with the same old pre-war drawing of the 7950. Just who was responsible for proof reading the Guides I don't know, but he was lucky to keep his job........

[Fredline]

It is numbered 57.

[PershoreHarrier]

It is numbered 57.

As a matter of interest Jock Scott what numbers do your Match Aerials carry - mine is numbered 15 by the way. Thanks.

[Nobby]

Are we sure these Aerial Match reels, as I prefer to call them to differentiate between the post War Match Aerial reel that actually was given that name, aren't simply stamped to make sure that the right spool back goes with the right spool front and in the right position when pressed up together? The only one I've examined thoroughly, Surrey Martin's, was stamped 16 on both:

[Surrey Martin]

Nobby
You have just saved me from going and having a look .
Hehe I just try and catch fish with it ! Fairly unsuccessfully of course .
Cheers mate
Surrey martin

[Nobby]

Never before have I looked so thoroughly at a fishing reel, Martin! You think of a centrepin as fairly simple and uncomplicated, but when you really look........