Ambassadeur 5000 History

by Mikael Riseberg ( www.abu-record.com )

In November 1952, ABU advertized in the Magazine Sportfiskaren, an announcement that you could buy an ABUrfabriken Record 5000 for Christmas in 1952 .

The Magazine pictures below are from December 1952

This was the Swedish magazine as ABU used for publishing news about its reels.

facts for Record 5000. I think it´s the most discussed reel in the family of Record manufactured by A,B.Urfabriken.

No 1. Green, Red and black, were the first reels Göte Borgström made.

They don't have the SG mark on them.

Here are some pictures on this reels right.

He produced a lot of them as samples.

I think it was minimum 100 off each.

1951-1952.

No 2. Now Göte Borgström decided red was the colour for the Record 5000.

and the SG mark is signed on the reel in 1952

No 3. The SG is gone.1952-1953 The green model has no SG mark either.

The difference between the no 1 and no 3 is the brake plate is produced in aluminium for no 1.

And no 3 has a grey colour.

Maybe more to follow..................