The Mitchell Match and Auto Bail Book
Printed and published in the UK, written by James Partridge, author of the Mitchell Part Number Cross Reference Book. The first and only book printed about the Mitchell Match reels. It is the specialist Mitchell autobail reference book. Its subject matter is the classic automatic bail arm reels produced by Mitchell from the Otomatic of 1955, the Mitchell Match up to the last of the 440A reels the ALC Auto lightning cast of the nineteen-nineties.
A List of the chapters in the Mitchell Match book:-
Chapter One: The Otomatic patent
ChapterTwo: The Otomatic and 330 models
Chapter Three: The Midnight-Blue Match and 440 models
Chapter Four: The high-speed brown Mitchell Match and 840 models
Chapter Five: The garcia-Mitchell 330A models
Chapter Six: The sky-blue Match and 440A models
Chapter Seven: The black Match and 440A models
Chapter Eight: The Auto Lightning Cast models
Chapter Nine: The Promatic Study
Chapter Ten: Rarities, oddities and phantom reels
Photographs of a few of the pages from the Mitchell Match book
Chapter nine The Promatic study
The book has been recieved very well by its readers. It has been reviewed in Classic Angling in the United Kingdom and by Dr. Todd on the "Fishing for History" website in the United States.
Price £35.99 plus P&P
May 2009 book announcement in Classic Angling magazine
July 2009 Classic Angling Magazine book review