ASPINDALE ALUMINIUM RODS
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 9:42 pm
Good evening all,
There was a post recently, which unfortunately I can not locate at the moment, in which the member was looking for information regarding an Aspindale Croftdale aluminium rod. I remember that a link was provided to a post I made a while ago regarding one of those Croftdale rods that I have and have used, hopefully my earlier post helped.
I thought it may be of interest to know that Aspindales supplied at least one other aluminium rod and I was fortunate enough to obtain one from the sale of Peter Aspindale's rods at Bigwood's auction earlier this year. The rod is called The Findale No.2 and is again a 13ft float rod :-
The Findale No.2 looks to me to be very similar to the Croftdale No 2, unfortunately I have not had chance to use the Findale yet so I can not coment on how it performs.
Interestingly I have also been able to obtain another aluminium rod which is again very similar to the Crofdale, this rod is badged as :-
A. Stamford,Sheffield and is called the Aerolite 13ft. To me it is the same rod as the Aspindale Crofdale and if you look at the script on both rods there is a similarity in the style, although the letter A on the Aerolite is different to the A on the Aspindale Croftdale rod. Also if you look at the word "The" on the Aerolite there is very familiar letter T which seems to crop up on a lot of different rod makes, this has been commented on in another post.
The two rods :-
It seems that the 13ft rod is a fairly standard design, now wether Aspindales bought them all and then supplied them to various other shops or makers I don't know. Forshaws of Liverpool offered their version of this aluminium rod and it is believed that Aspinales produced some of Forshaw's cane rods, so it looks probable that they also supplied them with the aluminium rod as well. Also of interest, at the time of posting this, there is an aluminium rod called The Angoloy by Chapmans of Ware for sale on a well know auction site and this rod looks identical to the others I have mentioned but the writing on the rod on this one does look to be in a different hand.
Hope this has been of interest.
Regards,
John
There was a post recently, which unfortunately I can not locate at the moment, in which the member was looking for information regarding an Aspindale Croftdale aluminium rod. I remember that a link was provided to a post I made a while ago regarding one of those Croftdale rods that I have and have used, hopefully my earlier post helped.
I thought it may be of interest to know that Aspindales supplied at least one other aluminium rod and I was fortunate enough to obtain one from the sale of Peter Aspindale's rods at Bigwood's auction earlier this year. The rod is called The Findale No.2 and is again a 13ft float rod :-
The Findale No.2 looks to me to be very similar to the Croftdale No 2, unfortunately I have not had chance to use the Findale yet so I can not coment on how it performs.
Interestingly I have also been able to obtain another aluminium rod which is again very similar to the Crofdale, this rod is badged as :-
A. Stamford,Sheffield and is called the Aerolite 13ft. To me it is the same rod as the Aspindale Crofdale and if you look at the script on both rods there is a similarity in the style, although the letter A on the Aerolite is different to the A on the Aspindale Croftdale rod. Also if you look at the word "The" on the Aerolite there is very familiar letter T which seems to crop up on a lot of different rod makes, this has been commented on in another post.
The two rods :-
It seems that the 13ft rod is a fairly standard design, now wether Aspindales bought them all and then supplied them to various other shops or makers I don't know. Forshaws of Liverpool offered their version of this aluminium rod and it is believed that Aspinales produced some of Forshaw's cane rods, so it looks probable that they also supplied them with the aluminium rod as well. Also of interest, at the time of posting this, there is an aluminium rod called The Angoloy by Chapmans of Ware for sale on a well know auction site and this rod looks identical to the others I have mentioned but the writing on the rod on this one does look to be in a different hand.
Hope this has been of interest.
Regards,
John