Hello ladies and gentlemen, here's a Speedia with factory cast lineguard lugs. It's the only one that my friends or myself have ever seen. It may be of interest to you.
Welcome to the forum Tony. :hat:
I just bought my first Speedia which should be arriving any day. :D
“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers,” Herbert Hoover.
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The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
just when you think you've seen it all ,up pops a new wonder ,thats probably a prototype ,as i've seen hundreds of speedias and thats the only one i've seen with line guard fittings built in .a very special speedia .
I try to be funny... but sometimes I merely look it! Steve
The reel was actually given to me by a chap called John Denman. He was Dave Steuarts fishing pal so I would assume that he bought it from Daves' shop in East Twickenham. I didn't bother to ask, as at the time I thought it was just another later version Speedia. He also gave me a wide-drum de-luxe Speedia and a boxed C815 3.75" mint Aerial BUT kept his Rapidex in case he ever did any trotting again. A bit mean I thought! Unfortunately a decade or so of trotting with it is beginning to take its toll and not unlike myself during the Cider Years it's developed a wobble! Like I said I thought you'd be interested.