By an amazing coincidence I have just found a magazine article from 1963 in Fishing Gazette about Sealey which states they "joined the Dunlop Group in 1961".
Other magazine articles show that both Sealey and KP Morritts were acquired at the same time in 1970 by Gladding, an American company. They spent a fair bit on advertising the new company Intrepid-Sealey for a few months as well as separate adverts declaring that Gladding had a fine reputation for over 150 years and mentioning their fly lines. I've never heard of them before this time and I've found no earlier reference to them.
Within a month or so both Intrepid and Sealey have separate advertisements again with both just having the word Gladding before their names in much smaller typeface an no mention of the other British acquisition.
There was a later version of the 'twin-fishes' logo in 1979, the company once again being called Intrepid-Sealey:
The newish Falmouth address is now called the Intrepid-Sealey works, there's no mention of Gladding......and none of Redditch.......
I have no idea how later, Intrepid managed to wriggle out of Gladding ownership, if indeed they ever did, but the company became British Fly Reels and was recently bought out and closed down by Orvis.
I think I'm going to punch the next American I meet on the nose.......if he works for Gladding, Orvis or Shakespeare so much the better........
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