Some folk would have preferred the machine in 'original' condition.
I'm not one of them. There's a limit to originality, and that one's a long way over it!

I'm guessing it's a Scottish pillar box.

Was 'Drawer' wrongly spelt on the original?

Made by British Chewing Sweets Ltd. of Slough.

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Mon Sep 14, 2020 3:09 am

On the plus side, the center attraction features a drunk man getting pachinko balls slammed into his groin.

As opposed to a malnourished POW being hit with the butt of a rifle...

Looks better than the original :lol: If that's the original on the left, then I have to agree. The original is HIDEOUS. I'm looking at the quality of the new one, rather than the design. I have a number of BALLY Gold Award conversions coming to the front of the queue, and there isn't a single unmol...

We are talking about the coin or token used here, often different size tokens were used to original coinage. Not saying this the case, but is possible. What is clear is it paid in tokens if award card is correct.... Or, it made a 'token payout', as suggested above. Which, to me, seems the more like...

I thought it unlikely that "...makes token payout 1/-" meant "One shilling in tokens".
After some thought, I decided it meant ' a token payment', a consolation prize because you lost on the Roulette.

Is Joe Public still able to grasp the concept of Bryan's Clock?
I've always thought that the Fruit Bowl was introduced because the idea of 'big hand on red' had started to baffle the up-coming generation!

Spoken like a true operator!
You can waste a lot of time talking to busybodies, and eventually you end up at the same point:
"...What are yuz ganna dee aboot it?"