What model is this reel ?

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What model is this reel ?

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Chaps, I think I asked this before but what is the model ? thanks DaveImageImage

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It's an Allcocks Record Breaker, I believe.
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Yes, your correct, I've seen one for sale on a vintage tackle site.Reelmaker

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Thanks for that chaps
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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.....

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I had one and really couldn't get on with it, that rachet lever is a reel bugger to use.

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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.

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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.

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Banksy Looks like you went to the wrong shop

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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.
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Ljm183 wrote: Sun Nov 11, 2018 2:22 pm
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.

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Banksy Looks like you went to the wrong shop

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