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Lady Bird Surfboards
1983
Kenny Hill

La Jolla Surfboards
1973
PO Box 47, Brookvale

Lane Surfboards

Len Dibben Surfboards
Freemanlte WA
1958
Len Dibben - Hollow plywood Okinuees
1960
Foam and fibreglass
1979
and Andy Berlach, Colin Ladhams and Chris Fullston ;

Len Dibben and employees with current models, circa 1968.

Note previous popular model (wide tailed Vee bottom), extreme left.
Image by Dibben Family collection,
reprinted in Australian Longboarding Magazine
Number 2 Winter 1988 page 21
Reported, with thanks, by Saxon June 2003...
Hydroplane Stingers were made extensively by Len Dibben (Surfboards) in Perth in the seventies.
I have seen the photo albums to prove it.

Les Purcell Surf Design
Maroochydore Qld
1974 - 1995
Les Purcell
Shaping history submitted, with thanks, by Les Purcell, April 23, 2003

"I started my shaping for Woosley Surfboards in Kelvingrove Brisbane in 1968.
Then I journeyed south and shaped for Atlas Surfboards in Melbourne 1969.
Then John Arnold in Adelaide in 1969.

My journey then took me back home to Queensland and next I shaped for Connexion Surfboards in Caloundra during 1970 which was owned by Greg Clough.
From there I shaped at Adlers Surf Centre in Wooloongabba in Brisbane from 1970 to late 1973.
In 1974 I opened the Les Purcell Design Surfboards.
Retired from my shaping winter of 1995 for the time-being..........."
These manufacturers have been added to or amended in the Manufacturer/Shaper Index.
Les added...
"There are a few shapers I did not see (in the M/S Index) who are credible..
1. Tony Biltoft who owned Nalu Surfboards, in Brisbane 1972 to 1973 when he died.
There was a Memorial Contest for him for many years following.
2. Kent Manning of Sunshine Coast and
Kent Manning worked at
Hayden Surfboards, 1979.
3. Darryl Bolger of the Gold Coast"
Darryl Bolger worked at
Darby Surfboards, Currumbin Qld, 1979.
Local Knowledge Surfboards, 1991.

Lightning Bolt Surfboards
Made under licence.
1980
Doug Bell;
1982
Greg Clough

Living Water Surfboards
Queensland
1980
Nick Masarin

Light Surfboards
Coffs Harbor NSW
1977
Chris Horne

Lime Lines Surfboards
Shoalhaven Heads NSW
1990
Mark Jameson

Limited Edition Surfboards
Shoalhaven Heads NSW
1986
Mark Jameson

Local Knowledge Surfboards
Byron Bay, NSW ?
1980
Steve ‘Zorro’ Goddard;
1982
Neal Purchase, Steve ‘Zorro’ Goddard;
1984
Alan Kempnich;
1986
Nev Hyman;
1989
Ken Reimers, Phil Murray;
1990
Warren Cornish;
1991
Darryl Bolger

Local Motion Surfboards
Gunther Rohn, Brian Ingram ,Tony Cerf,

Los Angles Ladder Co.
California
1935
Tom Blake Model

Lowery Surfboards
circa 1968
7 James Street Aspendale, Victoria.

Decal right, supplied by Joe, Nambucca Heads, October 2008, with thanks.