There will always be people who have no thought for others or the effort an event such as this involves, I would certainly endorse actions such as refusing to accept any further auction lots from these people. Alternatively, why not charge an 'item submission fee' this fee being deducted only if the...

arcadian, are you on dial-up or broadband ? I am on broadband and have no problems at all.

Interesting little machine Brian, I do not know anything about it but no doubt someone will. What is the machine to the left of the Ballwin?

For those interested, the website is http://www.victoriapier.com Quite an extensive site with numerous pics of the pier through the ages plus current internal pics of the amusement area. There is a special link to make a donation............ or you can have a brass plaque with your name on it for £2...

Ah..... hence the 'old-ish' style appearance, I look forward to receiving the next issue of MMM and reading about it.

Interesting photos Jerry, do you think the machines 'instruction' sheet is original, showing the '10 letters 10p', if so presumably BAC were still manufacturing or at least supplying them in the 1970s to a design that looked 40 or 50 years older. Interesting styling, the machine in the York, with it...

I can also remember the one at Paignton, I stamped out a name on its aluminium strip for a model sailing boat, this would be around the late 1950s to early 1960s, those strips were damn sharp at the ends, nothing like a bit of good old fashioned danger to make a kid aware !! There was also one sitti...

Just read John Peterson's article on the Khyber Pass, and would commend this to all who have an interest in slot machines. Johns erudite easy writing style always gives the reader much more than plain information and remind me of Alistair Cookes 'Letters from America', the articles are always intere...

Might be a silly question but could it have a left hand thread ?

Terry, I think your absolutely right about collecting those machines we had fond memories of playing as children and I believe that we will not see our machines full potential value (money and intrinsic) until they become real antiques, say 50 - 60 years time, by which time quite a lot of us will no...