I've done a bit of searching on this, Uwe, but can find nothing conclusive... the "
Shergold Marathon" appears to be the name of the model in question and a discussion forum (on the same site) references the "similarity", even with WAL users saying how good the "Marathon" is... like a Wal, but without the complication of the gadgets, the "bells and whistles", with one person going as far as saying they prefer their Marathon...!
I can only conclude that there was parallel evolution... must say that the single pup (mahogany?) model does look rather interesting...
Several references to "Ned Callan" and "Peter Cook", but nothing new other than later Cody/Hombre's being Japanese imports...?
This was interesting, albeit a guitar...
Ths TRC is very similar to my PCC cover... possibly who made them for PC...?
If anyone wants to dip into the history of those instruments, this is their forum...
http://www.shergold.co.uk/forum/index.php... and this is the Shergold (formerly Hayman Guitars) site...
http://www.shergold.co.uk/index.htmlSad thing is, they're all history; mostly forgotten history; like most of this country...
EDIT - lifted another bit as a seperate post re a WAL-alike...