before Yoneyama quite a lot of the badminton guys used to play with some other racket......it sort of had the word Gray in its name
I think it was Gray...have one of that too...and then later Carlton came out with their aluminum frame racquet & their plastic shuttlecocks, which I use to buy, was it half a dozen in the tube for practice.
It was Dunlop Wooden Racquet, played it broke...then used the GRAY & it was too heavy, then bought the YONEYAMA...& later the lighter CARLTON...nowadays I play "bedminton"..