| Re: newell rebuild
Very informative. I'm sure all the Newell fans like it.
Not so sure of the history though. I find it highly unlikely that Newell inspired any of the other reels mentioned, and am quite certain that he definitely did not inspire Abu Ambassadeur, since that reel was presented in 1952. If you mean that yoke-lifts-the-pinion thing, it was used by Penn in the 1940s, who got it from Ocean City in the 1930s, who got from Someone else, who got it from the Vom Hofes in the late 1890s.
Newell is a creative guy though, having designed some spools, ratchets and terminal tackle.
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