The CAP reel, eventually becoming the Model 304 reel, was originally made exclusively for it’s “inventor – wholesaler” or jobber from Angers, La Canne à Pêche (CAP, AKA C.A.P.), most likely the largest jobber in France at that time. Carpano and Pons at that time had no direct sales responsibility or territory at all for the CAP reel but did for their own reel referred to then as “The Mitchell”, with completely different mechanics and “sexy” looking as well! Carpano & Pons formed “Mitchell” as a separate corporation in the mid fifties along with the introduction of their own “round Body” called the Mitchell CAP 54. Thus the soon to be called “Mitchell 304” series was born. (Updated October 5th, 2008 by JP Gumprich)