Anexample of the ABU 333 which was never for sale in this form is thevery beautiful highly polished silver bell version. Thanks to Lars for his contribution here.Uffe Edefur informs me that the red version is very muchmore common by a factor of 10:1 He has just sourced me the rarerYellow and Black ABU 333 example below.My example below.small rub on reelseat. ABU badgeengineered identical ABU 333 made for Allen and Holm in specialyellow and black. My Sportex 400 was sourced from friend Coenraad in Africa but is not marked ABU, identical parts!One of the prettiest ABU Spinning reels has to be the below Red and black ABU 333 in more detail here. If the Suveran had beencontinued to be produced beyond the 1000 to 4000 size reels rightup to 12 000 capacity size reels, NO other manufacturer was havebeen able to compete.One feels that there was a greater emphasis on catching large fishso the majority of these spinning reels catered for heavier lines.Although ABU had some wonderful closed face ABUMATIC reelsand 500 series reels from the late 50's, it was not untilthe late 60's that the Cardinal 44 (and later eXpress variation)and then in 1975 that the task specific ultralight Cardinal 33reel was designed and produced. Other reels ranged from outsouced reels from Zangi in Italysuch as the Record 222, 225, 500, 600, 700, 888, 999, 1000, tothe Swedish designed and built Cardinal 33, to the innovativeCardinal 52/54/55/57 series, through to the Cardinal 66/77and X series, to the Suveran and high speed models like theCardinal 807i and the SORON ST 70 of 2009.

The box has been expensively crafted with woodeninserts to hold the reel and spool.These reels ranged from outsourced reels fromZangi in Italy such as the Record 222, 225, 500, 600, 700, 888,999, 1000. (His article was first published in the Britishquarterly 'Waterlog', Spring 2013.)ABU outsourced and produced their own fixed spool /spinningreel products from the early 50's and covered a great rangeof sizes that would to target medium sized fish like trout up tolarge sea fish like Salmon in Europe.My most recent acquisition is the beautiful leather boxed Record 600in mint condition. SoonI hope to photograph my 50 favourite Record and ABU spinningreels to display here.I am collecting quite a few examples ofthe complete range in this spinning style of ABU fishing reeland will eventually get around to photographing anddocumenting and learning more about the range.A very interesting article by my friend.The next instalment onHans has kindly proffered this article on for some Cardinalreels which may be of interest to readers.ABU'sfamous Cardinal 33 below is their contribution to this style offinesse fishing.

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