It is a Hardy "The Lightweight", not to be confused with the LRH Lightweight although the spools are the same size and can be interchanged.
Although the reel has dual pawls and springs both sets are orientated for right hand wind (RHW).
The small amount of line wear on the reel indicates that in the past it was mainly used LHW. Presumably the owner was prepared to accept the greater resistance on winding in compared with winding out. I would now find it an irritation fishing with a reel like this and early in my fishing career, probably about when this reel was made, I lost a large sea trout using a click-pawl reel mounted backwards when the weaker out spring resulted in a huge over-run and line tangle.
One could add extra pillars to the back of the reel to allow the springs to be reversed. Simpler than this, and without making any irreversible alterations to the reel, is to make a new leaf spring which reverses the orientation between the pawl and the tip of the spring.
This works so well that I don't feel the inclination to change the second spring although, if I did, I would have the option of a three degree check. Unless both springs I made came out exactly the same, which is unlikely and I could adjust them to be different, I would have the options of light spring and pawl or heavy spring and pawl or both springs and both pawls.
