Not sure if you saw below thread, but will provide a bit more info and pics..

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Nice machine

I notice that most of these machines had three operating knobs for ball lifting, shield movement and payout. This one has two. Is it autopay for cigarettes and is it single cigarettes, or the whole 5 pack item?

I know a few on here who have a complete machine, including myself, but I will have no access to mine till we are allowed out to play......

Thanks for sharing and nice job made. Good to see how they were made up. Probably will keep my wooden ones as never found a model suitable and suspect they had these made for them. Looks like the floats are wood on the originals as well....

Essex hills are made of rubbish tips, sadly probably where lots of jewels are buried. I still have one machine from Clacton a Felix Shooter with the arcade badge on from the 1930’s.. Edited with badge, Harrison’s, think they were on the pier maybe !PUZZLED! Updated again as I noticed the business be...

The reset bar is needed for resetting both the main jackpot and the reserve, so it is needed after a jackpot trip.

They do come up for sale and there are sources in the US.

Welcome, by the way.

Hi Geoff I joined this facebook page which has something close to what you are looking for: https://www.facebook.com/groups/151347598650253 I'm currently working on a restoration of this lovely beauty of a Ditchburn vending machine below from 1965. all the best .. Dicky That’s cool, how on earth di...

I believe they would use standard short nozzle locker, garage type locks. They vary in price starting modem cheap L&F locks sold by the hundred at collectors auctions, less than pound each. Then originals used on machines in the U.K. like Union and Yale. The latter being the most expensive, agai...

Is complexity just not what you’re use to. Also I believe German machines are far better engineered, than the crude American based 3 reelers. Also the German machines were designed for a few years not 70 and they still survive... Video was a bit long winded, I fell asleep after 30 seconds even when ...

Thanks for sharing Coin-op.....yell Mills and nice to see original tin strips... It is a Marmite machine and this model is the most grotesque of the Firmans range a real shocker of mixed styles.....I guess you will either love or hate it.......I am trying hard to love it 😍 and it would grow on me mo...