I think NW made some one off heavy spinning rods for Jeremy Wade and Boote's "Casting for Gold" film - Mahseer on the upper Ganges, almost in the Himalayas.
I have their book somewhere. I'll check on the credits etc later.
A few points.
The filmed August-September 1989, screened worldwide 1990, Casting For Gold film featured John Bailey (not Wade) and myself (I was also Consultant to the makers of the film). The upper Ganges is definitely in - well and truly in - the Himalaya. The rods used in the film (I still have three of the four, the fourth I gave as a present to a fine old gentleman who appeared in the film, a great mahseer-angler and long-time good friend of mine, Lt. Col. Morris Mehta of Dehra Dun) were special one-offs designed and built by myself on blanks (two "light", two "heavy") made specially for me by Century Composites to my spec. 11-foot, lowish-diameter, woven carbon-kevlars fitted with Fuji SiC guides. Not heavy, by any means - indeed, of lighter test curve and far less stiff than the vast majority of today's carp rods.
Nicholas Whipp. Nicholas was a rod builder based in north Wales who initially built fly rods (mostly for the U.S. market), then began to look towards building and selling coarse rods here. In late 1989, tired of six years of non-stop rod building for my pretty successful Graham Phillips Rods business, I decided to sell G.P. I put the word out, and very soon Nicholas Whipp was in touch. The sale was effected by the spring of 1990, and I was free of rods and free to fish again as much as I wanted to!