One must take into account that only a small percentage of the angling population fished for Carp with any regularity. Taking my old club as an example, with a membership of more than two hundred I can recall only one chap who targeted the Carp in our lake at that time. So the actual market for these rods was comparatively small.Santiago wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:35 pm Begs the question how many folk were coarse fishing during that time span. Say 15 years! I don't know the actual figure but to keep the maths simple let's say 5 million (probably a big underestimate). If some one knows the approx figure then lets have it!! Anyways, that works out at 15000 BJames rods owned within a fishing population of 5 million, which is only 0.3% of the market. More realistically over the 15 years of production there were possibly 15 or more million potential buyers, so that's only 0.1% of the market. So actually 15000, when expressed in terms of the market share, is not that many!
And 1, 000 a year works out at 20 a week, or 4 a day (assuming 5day week). That begs the question of how many folk they employed making the rods? And how many blanks they bought in from other sources like JB Walker and Allcocks etc.?
Four rods a day seems not that many! And quite feasible!!! So I suspect that the 15,000 is probably an underestimate.
The manager's name was Cliff Glenton!Nobby wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:18 pm When Bruce and Walker was formed the old shop manager carried on selling MkIV rods, though the premises seems to have changed to the other side of Northfield Avenue. I don't know who was making these rods or where...can't even think of the manager's name....Ted?
