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| La Jolla
Surfboards 1972 PO Box 47, Brookvale.   |
 Spirit of Brotherhood, circa 1973. |
| Laguna
Bay Longboards Noosa Surf Works https://noosasurfworks.com.au/pages/history-2 2000? Tully St John  |
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| Lane Surfboards ? Adelaide, South Australia 1979 Lane Habib Greg Frost Lane decal forwarded from bruce w., Novemmber 2013, wuth thanks. |
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| Larkin Surfboards 1961 28 Miles Street, Kirra Qld See: Joe Larkin Surfboards |
| Lee and Donoghoe Surfboards
Newcastle? 1970? Phil Donoghoe and Roy Lee Thanks to Snazzy, January 2019. |
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| Lee Riley Surfboards
Avalon 1975 Mona Vale, NSW. Phone: 997-4130 1988 Lee Riley Thanks to Snazzy, January 2019. |
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| Lennox
Underground Surfboards 1978 Lennox Head NSW Phil Myers Decal image courtesy of Issac Flint, Ballina May 2009. |
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| Len Dibben
Surfboards North Freemantle WA 1958 Len Dibben - Hollow plywood Okinuees 1960 Foam and fibreglass 1979 and Andy Berlach, Colin Ladhams and Chris Fullston ; Advertisement: Surf International Vol. 2. No. 5 page6. Decal image: Len's Surf Shoppe, circa 1970. Supplied by Ken G., July 2009. Photograph: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. Below: Len Dibben decals, circa 1973 and 1977. 
  
    1974 decals courtesy of Yoann, February 2018   Styled by Len Didden, 1968. Thanks to Snazzy.   Len Didden Handcrafted and Bomb, 1989. Thanks to Paul Denboer, May 2021. |
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| Lennox Underground Surfboards
Lennox Head NSW 1975 Tony Cerff, Gunther Rohn & Bob McTavish Noted: Swallow-tail stinger with amateur repaired leg-rope gashes, no shaper. Phil Myers Decal image courtesy of Issac Flint, Ballina May 2009. 1992 Chris Brock Moving Curves   1998  |
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| Les Purcell Surf
Design Maroochydore Qld 1974 - 1995 Les Purcell 1978 Erle Pederson (Kneeboards) 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, and Local Knowledge Surfboards, 1991.       Les Purcell decals 1989, thanks to Snazzy, March 2019.  |
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(Les Purcell Designs), 1985.
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| Lewis
Surfboards Hastings Drive, Port Macquarie, NSW 1974 [John] Lewis Decal contributed by snazzy. |
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| Libertyl Surfboards Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia Phone: 0411-246-118 1988 Rod Morgan |
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| Lightfoot International Surfboards Melbourne Phone: 45-2423 1964 Decal courtesy of Snazzy, 2019: Logo from an old mal dating from 1962-1964 |
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| Lightning Bolt (Hawaii) Surfboards 1972 Noted: 7ft 2'' Barry Kanaiapuni, 1974, Brewer wide based pivot fin, marbled resin work with resin pin-lines and bolts, possibly to the work of master glasser Roy Stamm.  6ft 6" Rounded
square-tail Jeff Hakman design
shaped by Tom Parrish, 1976?
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| Lightning
Bolt (Australia) Surfboards Made under licence. 1975 Jim Beardsley 1980 Doug Bell Stuart Cadden, noted rounded pintail twin fin. 1982 Greg Clough Ian Goodacre Ed Sinnot Also see Star Bolt Surfboards  1986      |
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| Line Up
Surfboards 1990 Dee Why? Geoff Horner  |
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| Lip Sticks Surfboards PO Box 56 Whangarrata (South Australia?) 1987 Michael Organ |
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| Lip Stix Surfboards South Australia 1978 Rod Weasel Bedford Rip'N'Tear by Lip StixTwin-fin  Lip Stix, 1980  Lip Stix, 1985  Decals thanks to Snazzy, December 2019.   |
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| Liquid
Horizon Surfboards ? 1976 David Hanlon |
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| Littoral Expression Surfboards ? 1975 Partial decal image courtesy of TomTom2, April 2014. |
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| Lightning Bolt
Surfboards Australia 1977 513 Nepean Highway, Bonbeach, (Victoria) 772-6630 |
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| Lightning
Bolt Surfboards Australia 1978 Made under licence by Aloha Surfboards Brookvale Shaped by Greg Clough Shaped by Stuart Campbell.  |
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| Liquid Lips Surfboards ?? 1982 Geoff Gibson.  Four
fin model,1986.
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| Liquid
Fusion Surfboards Victoria? 1986 Peter Young Noted: Quad fin |
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| Live
Wire Surfboards Bryon Bay 1978 Des Delaney |
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| Living
Water Surfboards Main Beach, Queensland Phone: 38-8040 1983 Nick Masarion. Peter Miller Living Water is taken from the New Testament, one of several Christian centered companies in the mid-1980s. Also see Christie Surfboards.  Living
Water, red,1983.
 Living Water, blue, 1983.  Living Water: Prince
of Peace, 1978.
  1992, decal thanks to Paul Gallagher, June 2021. |
  Living Water, 1980. 
 Living Water, 1984.  Living Water Circle, 1986. - contributed with thanks by snazzy, April 2015. |
| Local Knowledge
Surfboards North Kirra, Queensland. 1979 Steve ‘Zorro’ Goddard. Decal image from Noddy H., May 2014. 1982 Neal Purchase, Steve ‘Zorro’ Goddard Tri-Fin Model 1984 Alan Kempnich 1986 Nev Hyman 1989 Ken Reimers, Phil Murray; 1990 Warren Cornish 1990 Rob Webster, Darryl Bolger 1997 Darren Handley        1986, decal thanks to Snazzy, June 2019.   |
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| Local
Motion Australia Surfboards
1987 Byron Bay Gunther Rohn, Brian Ingram ,Tony Cerff,  1995
Ricky Carroll  1998
Phil Myers 
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| Lomas
Surfboards ? 1974 Noted: 4ft 9" spooned deck knee board with glue-line stringer |
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| Loose in the Juice (Surfboards) by Wayne Lynch Lorne, Victoria? 1977. Wayne Lynch |
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| Lorne Surf
Shop (Surfboards) Lorne, Victoria. 1975 Wayne Lynch and #383 1976. Michael Anthony See Ocean Road Surfboards   |
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| Los Angles
Ladder Co. California 1935 Tom Blake Model |
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| Lowery
Surfboards Phillip Island, Victoria. 7 James Street, Aspendale, Victoria. circa 1968 Richard Lowery
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| Luke
Short Design - LSD Surfboards circa 1994 ??? 2000? Buzz Shapes |
 
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| Ludwig Surfboards circa 1988 ??? |
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