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Just noticed that the Kenlee, Lepson & Wessex are not yet included in the Listing??

Hi Mark
One more to add to the list Sea Rod Allcocks Solent 2pce cane with wood top with spliced wooden handle Agate rings throughout.7ft 8ft 9ft

And the sea rod Allocks Climax 7ft 8ft 9ft 10ft

Thank Steve 1st post updated.

Hi Mark - why are the three rods I mentioned in early December not included? All are cane and in the 1966 catalogue.

Olly wrote:Hi Mark - why are the three rods I mentioned in early December not included? All are cane and in the 1966 catalogue.

Are they coarse, fly or spinning rods etc, I meant to ask you.

Sorry Mark.
These two are in - spinning.
Kenlee - 2 joint salmon/pike rod - 10ft built cane - two tone black/red whippings - will cast 2oz & weighs 16oz.

Lepson de Luxe - 2 joint mahogany coloured built cane - 8ft & 9ft - Aqualite rings throughout - long handle with maroon whippings - casts 3oz - ideal for live/deadbait fishing for pike. Weight 8ft=14oz & 9ft=16oz.

Next seems a very strange sea float rod!
The Allcocks Wessex - 3 joint built cane float rod for pollack & mackerel - at 9ft + 10ft, weighing 15oz & 17oz resp. No mention of whipping, etc.

None are in the 1967 catalogue so the end of cane for sea angling and spinning it would seem although the Carp/Avon, Avon Superb, Record Breaker and Harvey Torbett remain in cane but the Combination, Beatall & Newlee have the cane/glass mixture.

1st post now updated Olly.

Thanks Mark.

I think both those rods were originally Lee rods and were included only briefly in the offerings of Top Tackle, the Lee, JW Youngs and Allcocks merger. In fact the owners of Top Tackle sold them to Shakespeare in late 1965 and the entire range was stripped bare, the last few rods and reels sold off cheap to dealers. The range was supplemented with 'glass rods from America and Japanese reels that had gone 3/4 of the way around the world to get here. A factory fire in 1969 a brief re-location ....and Shakespeare shut the lot down...all gone.


I've tried to detail it here:


https://nobbystackle.wordpress.com/2015 ... t-the-end/



But the anomalies between Allcocks Guides, published the year before, Allcocks catalogues and what was really still being offered is hard to pin down.


The earlier Allcocks history I've tried to cover here:

https://nobbystackle.wordpress.com/2015 ... beginning/




Both blog entries undoubtedly have errors in them and are a 'work in progress' as the saying goes when you don't really know what you're talking about.....