Difference between Match Special and Trudex?

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Difference between Match Special and Trudex?

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Is there any actual difference between the Match Special and the Trudex?

I should say that I have never seen a Match Special in the flesh but, from photographs, all the ones I have seen have an octagonal badge and are pre "Ltd.". However, I've seen Trudex's with that badge! In size and design, they look identical to me.

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They are just a re badged Trudex they also did them for Milwards Floatcraft and Edgar Sealey Float Queen
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Match special is much rarer.

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Thanks for this chaps! Much appreciated. :Hat:
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The Match Special was indeed a Trudex re-badghed for Allcock alone, but was discontinued quite early on if the Allcocks Guide is anything to go by....and it isn't always!

Available from 1954 to 1963 from my dodgy memory.....

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The badge!

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By coincidence I looked in a reel pouch and found what a I thought was a Trudex only to discover when turning it over it was a Match Special which I had forgotten I had.Thus I was determined to use it on my next outing.The only difference is the label.
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