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Percy Frank Wadham

Percy Frank Wadham was born on19th August 1874 at Newport Isle of Wight. Educated at the Portland House Academy in Newport he was apprenticed as a cabinet maker but did not complete his apprenticeship. He changed his career to that of a taxidermist, completing his training with the firm of William Chalkley based at the Square in Winchester, Hampshire

Albert Percy Scott

Albert “Percy” Scott was born on 26th September 1872 in Newport to a typical middle-class family; his father, John William Scott, a tea dealer and draper who would later become an inspector of taxes at the Inland Revenue.

The Dreadnought Casting Reel Company.

The Dreadnought Casting Reel Company was incorporated on 3rd May 1909 with three shareholders, Percy Frank Wadham, Albert Percy Scott and Arthur Ernest Wadham. Each holding 25 shares, with the aim of buying the patent from Scott and Wadham, manufacturing and marketing the Meteor reel and other fishing related inventions.