Mudfish Marquad, thank you for sharing your Kilwell treasures. Kiwiscanfly, thank you so much for scanning/uploading those catalogs, making them available to us. Absolutely marvelous that Jim, the Kilwell representative, will help with any missing catalogs. Don’t we wish all manufacturers and distributors would be so able and willing to help with documentation of their history?
I have two comments to add.
First, for certain some know, but likely not all are aware that Kilwell’s fiberglass plant was designed under the guidance of Conolon (as stated in the circa 1970 Kilwell catalog link below). Please note, I have Wayne Real’s permission to post here these image links from realsreels.com. Kiwiscanfly, I’m sending you a PM about Wayne.
circa 1970 covertext about ConolonSecond, Kilwell Products Limited was incorporated and changed its name to Kilwell-ABU Limited on 16-Feb-1964, which lasted until Kilwell Manufacturing Limited 17-Jul-1985. This information may be useful for dating decals, should you encounter a rod.
Kilwell-ABU Limited incorporationIf anyone is wondering, I don’t own any Kilwell rods. My interest in Kilwell was in their production of ABU metal baits. (And, I do own some US Conolon rods.)
John