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hi All I have bee recently looking for some information on the labels that allcocks used on their rod bags. There seems to be very little information on this subject. Would be interested in hearing if Nybody has researched this topic. Would be great to get a pictorial history , complete with dates when they were used.

Here is one I received recently, I think it is quite old but not sure what era.

No doubt someone on TFF will hopefully give you a date on this rod bag, the rod is glass.

Reedling wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2017 6:45 pm No doubt someone on TFF will hopefully give you a date on this rod bag, the rod is glass.

I believe the buy-out which created 'Noris Shakespeare' happened in 1966 ... and the company had effectively ceased trading by 1969. If that's so, it gives a quite precise date for your bag to between those years.

This was the label on a Billy Lane DeLuxe Match Rod from that period :-

Thanks AC I myself wondered about the date.

That's two labels a few decades apart! A good start. If you see an S in front of Allcocks it's early...pre-war probably. As AC has correctly asserted the Noris Shakespeare was formed in 1966 to acquire Top Tackle, the amalgamation of Allcocks, JW Young and Lee Products which had itself been formed in 1963 as Allcock Young and then again in 1964 when Malcolm Lee asked to join in........not his best idea. Noris was a German tackle maker they acquired at the same time.

Where might we be in the Americans had been banned from owning British companies? Would Allcock and Lee still be around? Grice and Young? KP Morritts? Do we still really have JW Young?? sigh.

I do have this one, no idea from when or what...I found it online: