Hempy, your Neville fanboy-ism is wearing pretty thin now. I am happy to give Neville full credit for what he did do, but he bullshitted so much and you seem to have swallowed it all!
Neville built his reputation on the back of the work of others, it would have been nice if he gave some credit instead of making up stupid stories like the G13 myth he started. Remember, when the work to create the genetics Neville profited from was done, Neville was a little kid, he didn't even have the idea to sell seeds until 1982 and Northern Lights, Haze, G13, Early Pearl, Hashplant and all the other genes he used had already been in existence for man years.
So in 1984, all Neville had was pretty poor, in fact, all they had in Holland then was pretty poor, then Sam turned up with a collection of great genes. Neville wasn't the first to run a seed bank either, that was Lowlands Seed/Weed Co, run by Wernard Bruining and this guy, Kees Hoekert:
So Neville made a shitload of money selling seeds to the US. If we look at his 1987 catalogue, it's all genes he bought in from other people and some F1 hybrids he made from them:
Cali Orange was bred by Jerry Biesler, brought to Holland by Sam and sold to Neville who then made a load of money out of selling the seeds to the US. Who deserves the credit for the breeding work here? Jerry Biesler of course, Sam and Neville just took credit and profitted.
Haze x Northern Lights, a simple F1 of two lines bought in and Ruderalis, a piece of crap picked from a Hungarian roadside, three pages in there is precous little evidence of Neville doing much breeding work.
Two F1 hybrids using a NL1 male and two plants Neville claimed to have received as clone onlys, this is the extent of Neville's breeding at this point - F1 hybrids of other people's work.
In 1984, Neville had nowt but shite, within 3 years all apart from Ruderalis and NL had disappeared to be replaced with genes either purchased from Sam or purchased from people on the west coast of the US, that is the bare facts, so let's give Neville credit for what he actually did do - track down and commercialise a load of great lines.
So credit where credit is due, but hempy, FFS, please stop trying to build Neville up into something he wasn't!"