Looking really good. It's three years since I managed to visit. I may yet get over this season, once the hotels get going again. I usually stay at the Blue Boar on Wroxham Road. I've not seen the Wroxham arcade yet; any pictures, anyone? An observation: On more than one occasion, at the Merrivale ar...

24 Winning Cups is by Oliver Whales, as is PLAYBALL and The Easy Nine.
What a state!
Where to begin?

How many jackpot pulls did you get?
There should be a knob inside to adjust this.

It's 5 cents carefully made into 6d. for the British market, probably by the Samson Novelty Co., if the 20-stop number reels are anything to go by.
I've yet to own a Victoria 'B'. Let's hope this fad doesn't drive them towards extinction, like Waltzers did with Speedway Arks and Autodromes.

The soldered-on item is a spacer to stop the electric payout on the non-horseshoe orange. It shouldn't correspond to any payout hole. I can't remember what triggers the feature on Lucky Devil. It doesn't just appear; you have to get some combination. Probably the one which used to trip the jackpot; ...

The Phœnix Works
Coin Automatic Machine Manufacturers
38 Hurst Street
Birmingham.

The gallery is clearly incomplete without a surround, although a less bulky one might be better.
As Treefrog mentions, backflash makers gave little regard to the playfield fittings, even when both were done 'in-house'. Oliver Whales comes to mind here.

The ball will drop just as fast whatever it's made of, so I wouldn't worry about that.

The original 4-pin starter was thermal. Two opposite pins were for a small heater in series with the tube heaters, and the other two were for the bi-metallic strip which breaks the circuit to strike the tube. The later ones are a direct plug-in replacement. The two 'break' contacts are bridged, and ...

I have some, somewhere.
They are the later, discharge tube type, not the thermal ones, but they are a direct replacement.
I'll have a dig around tomorrow.