The Hardy Birmingham plate wind reel – who named it?

It’s a bit of a mystery here, Hardy were advertising reels way back in the 1880s catalogues and certainly some were made by Malloch of Perth. Categorically the crank wind models, rarely seen but they do pop up now and again. Indeed if you look at many of the Malloch bronzed brass reels with the [...]
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