Bygone days
We look back at the pages of Tackle & Guns from February 1978 to see what was happening.
❱❱ Hugh Fenwick, Milbro’s fi nancial director (pictured, left), and Ray Andrews, marketing director (right), returned from a trip to West Germany with a £100,00 order for Diana air rifl es and pellets.
❱❱ T e fi nal Edgar Sealey rod was made in Redditch with the last few rod makers at the Brockhill works laid off as production was moved to Cornwall.
❱❱ Leisure Sport, which was part of the Ready Mixed Concrete group and made gravel pits available for angling, announced that it was going into the tackle business. It purchased two shops
in Staines at 47/49 Church Street (later to become Davies Angling).
❱❱ A major fi re caused severe damage to the Sportsman’s Lodge at 44 Kingsthorpe Road, Northampton. Owner Michael Rigby confi rmed that he was carrying on in business in adjacent premises until his shop was rebuilt.
❱❱ Tony Walsh (pictured) was
appointed personal assistant to David
Nickerson, with particular responsibility for sales and customer relations.
❱❱ “We are determined to beat the foreign competition both on price and quality,” declared John Carroll of Sundridge Tackle to Tackle & Guns magazine after an investment of £40,000 in new rod-building machinery.
❱❱ Whitby was appointed sole UK distributor for the famous French Opinel knives.
Pictured left is John Carroll discussing production with the operator of the machine he designed to fi t corks onto 10 blanks at a time.
WE’VE GOT IT COVERED! We offer
The BEST margin
The BEST stock holding The QUICKEST delivery
RELAX
So don’t worry about big stock orders.
Keep your cash in the bank and not on your shelf! We’ll deliver your Sea, Coarse & Fly stock NEXT DAY GUARANTEED
To set up your account today contact Helen Morgan on 01874 612 782
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76