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Significant ABU Friends

Coenraad an ABU mate from Pretoria South Africa







At last, meeting up!
The other ...Admiral Coenraad!
Just wonderful with Anne I being shown around by a local and welcomed home to meet and eat with family!



Thankyou for a fine knowledgeable review/comparison of the
Vintage Abumatic 170 V Abumatic 170i
and
Vintage Cardinal 57 joint review / observations to be read in conjunction with Alan Hawk's full review.
Also
A big thankyou for this very rarely seen ABU 555, the Record 1550 which for a short time, had to be renamed for market reasons!






                       



A friend who first shared early advertising images from South Africa for all us ABU fans..

Isn't it amazing how friends can be made through fishing and especially the love of ABU and fishing!
More here later.....

The Story of ABU and me…

                 By

Coenraad van den Heever (PhD)


         (This is a PDF link to Part 1)
         (
This is a PDF link to Part 2)
          (This is a PDF link to Part 3)
         (This is a PDF link to Part 4)



 

Coenraad has found some other European ABU advertising images to share, one also being a fold out flier from the Netherlands and another from UK!

Netherlands ABU Flier
 

 

UK ABU magazine
 

                                    



 
Thanks for this interesting sharing my friend!

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If you are a person that has significantly had an effect on design/development/testing of ABU equipment over the years please contact me   abuadmiral@gmail.com   if you wish your contribution documented for posterity and the immediate interest of the ABU fans worldwide!

 

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