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This is, as always, just brilliant to be able to ask on here and get replies so quickly.
Much appreciated chaps!

Damflask wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 5:43 pm Just bought something off a well known auction site I probably shouldn’t have.
Is there such a thing as a Pye two piece rod?

Yes

I am pretty sure there is a member on here who has one I recall being told about it.

The reason Chapman,s give for the NL

I have the 2 sections plus butt one.

I have also a two section plus handle. I'ts a NL with hard chromed, unlined Tip and Butt rings in unused condiition.
Kind Regards
Mötti

The DP is a two piece and the NL introduced as a budget version but just as good as the difference was only cosmetic. The 700 is a different rod altogether and more common.

I’m a bit confused now.
I thought a 700 was a DP?

Damflask wrote: ↑Tue Aug 28, 2018 12:37 pm I’m a bit confused now.
I thought a 700 was a DP?

The 700 is a Denis Pye. It,s the separate handle version.

The Chapman Dennis Pye 700. 10′ 3 piece Pike rod 1960.

1960 Catalogue description. This rod has the precise action and test curve of a standard Dennis Pye Pike rod but supplied in two 3’ 11” lengths with detachable handle.

The NL above is 3 piece not 2 + butt section.

Therefore there must be 3 versions!
2 sections - as per LMJ
3 sections - as per LMJ 1962 catalogue
and 2 sections + butt - 700 version??

Gets more strange!