What model is this reel ?
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What model is this reel ?
Chaps, I think I asked this before but what is the model ? thanks Dave
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Re: What model is this reel ?
It's an Allcocks Record Breaker, I believe.
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Re: What model is this reel ?
Yes, your correct, I've seen one for sale on a vintage tackle site.Reelmaker
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Re: What model is this reel ?
Thanks for that chaps
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Re: What model is this reel ?
Yes one of JW Young's last reels I think. Made in the mid-Sixties for Allcock and still made briefly after both firms were bought out by Shakespeare after letting Leonard Matchan buy into both firms. He sold them out within three years.....
Re: What model is this reel ?
I had one and really couldn't get on with it, that rachet lever is a reel bugger to use.
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Re: What model is this reel ?
Yes, Record Breaker, the reel which broke my heart.
I think it was in 1968, I worked on a farm for the entire school holidays, taking all the overtime I could, saving up for "The finest trotting reel ever made" - Billy Lane's description of the Match Aerial in the 1968 Allcocks catalogue.
The price was 124' 3d.
But when I arrived at the shop clutching my hard-earned cash, I found I was 10 bob short.
The shopkeeper would not consider my offer to pay off the 10 shillings in installments, so I opted for the Record Breaker at a mere 62'. convincing myself that it was a very similar reel, and I would have cash to spare.
Bad decision, even for a 16 year old. I was never happy with the reel, although it performed perfectly adequately.
I think it was in 1968, I worked on a farm for the entire school holidays, taking all the overtime I could, saving up for "The finest trotting reel ever made" - Billy Lane's description of the Match Aerial in the 1968 Allcocks catalogue.
The price was 124' 3d.
But when I arrived at the shop clutching my hard-earned cash, I found I was 10 bob short.
The shopkeeper would not consider my offer to pay off the 10 shillings in installments, so I opted for the Record Breaker at a mere 62'. convincing myself that it was a very similar reel, and I would have cash to spare.
Bad decision, even for a 16 year old. I was never happy with the reel, although it performed perfectly adequately.
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Re: What model is this reel ?
Banksy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 11, 2018 12:35 pm Yes, Record Breaker, the reel which broke my heart.
I think it was in 1968, I worked on a farm for the entire school holidays, taking all the overtime I could, saving up for "The finest trotting reel ever made" - Billy Lane's description of the Match Aerial in the 1968 Allcocks catalogue.
The price was 124' 3d.
But when I arrived at the shop clutching my hard-earned cash, I found I was 10 bob short.
The shopkeeper would not consider my offer to pay off the 10 shillings in installments, so I opted for the Record Breaker at a mere 62'. convincing myself that it was a very similar reel, and I would have cash to spare.
Bad decision, even for a 16 year old. I was never happy with the reel, although it performed perfectly adequately.
Banksy Looks like you went to the wrong shop
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Re: What model is this reel ?
No, my parents would have made my life Hell, if I'd done that!
"Do NOT buy anything with a loan, apart from a house!"
Must admit, as a 16 year old, I would have been very tempted.
But then my Mum would not have been impressed when Big Vern came round to collect his dues.
"Do NOT buy anything with a loan, apart from a house!"
Must admit, as a 16 year old, I would have been very tempted.
But then my Mum would not have been impressed when Big Vern came round to collect his dues.
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Re: What model is this reel ?
Just picked this thread up and was rather amused by the cartoon - it is very similar to the animated adverts one could see at the pictures before the trailers rolled - one I can recollect was a chap dragging another into a shop uttering the words or a close approximation "err Burt this is the place"Ljm183 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 11, 2018 2:22 pmBanksy wrote: ↑Sun Nov 11, 2018 12:35 pm Yes, Record Breaker, the reel which broke my heart.
I think it was in 1968, I worked on a farm for the entire school holidays, taking all the overtime I could, saving up for "The finest trotting reel ever made" - Billy Lane's description of the Match Aerial in the 1968 Allcocks catalogue.
The price was 124' 3d.
But when I arrived at the shop clutching my hard-earned cash, I found I was 10 bob short.
The shopkeeper would not consider my offer to pay off the 10 shillings in installments, so I opted for the Record Breaker at a mere 62'. convincing myself that it was a very similar reel, and I would have cash to spare.
Bad decision, even for a 16 year old. I was never happy with the reel, although it performed perfectly adequately.
Banksy Looks like you went to the wrong shop
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