Blimey! What a response! If I was still employed I'd have to take a week off to comment and answer all the queries! Still, I don't have to worry about that, having been retired from full-time employment getting-on for 25 years; my current ambition is to spend more years in retirement than employed - so there's still a way to go.
Firstly though, something else came to mind, regarding its history, that I think should be recorded: Our own Mike Wilson, yet another trained engineer, was once entrusted by 'BB' to renovate this reel. Mike told me it was in a pretty poor state at the time, evidently 'BB' had used it for sea fishing! I'm sure Mike himself can tell us more. What about it, Mike?
Our illustrious Captain, Mark, may choose to move this first answer elsewhere to a place a more pertinent, for reasons that will become obvious; if you do, Mark, that's fine by me.
It concerns the final query - that for close-ups of The Gough No 1.
When entrusted to refurbish this particular reel I placed no real import to the job at that time, so didn't take any close-up pictures that I remember. But, however, I might just do a little bit better. Below are two scans, taken from Creel magazine, March 1964 issue. These depict an article describing said reel, including drawings, penned by the maker himself, Lloyd Gladstone Gough.
I apologise for posting these scans horizontal rather than vertical, but they seem to reproduce better and, therefore more legible.
Will endeavour to comment further on other issues raised by separate post another time.
Besties,
Len.