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- Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Vintage amusement arcades currently open in the UK
- Replies: 69
- Views: 21938
Re: Vintage amusement arcades currently open in the UK
Called into Bygone times near Chorley, Lancashire today to see Darren Hesketh collection, Darren no longer has any machines here anymore, I was told that he had moved out earlier in the year. I called over to see him last year, unfortunately his arcade was in quite a mess at the time, I believe the...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Exhibit Supply Jockey Club identified
- Replies: 9
- Views: 452
Re: This week's difficult ID question
Back again with the answer !SMARTY! I have been looking at some back issues of the coin slot magazine. I had a nagging feeling that I had seen this machine before. !READ! Anyway, I found what I was looking for in the June 1983 issue. Jockey Club was produced by Exhibit Supply Company. It is the sist...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 10:08 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Exhibit Supply Jockey Club identified
- Replies: 9
- Views: 452
Re: This week's difficult ID question
Must be a bit of a rarity, The patent No's refer mainly to improvements to the coin slide mechanism. They were filed by Walter Tratsch of the ABT Manufacturing Company, but the machine is not listed amongst the 90 or so games the company produced over the years. !PUZZLED! Maybe it was made as a spec...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: Essex Football & Ahrens Great Polo Game identified
- Replies: 21
- Views: 975
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: Essex Football & Ahrens Great Polo Game identified
- Replies: 21
- Views: 975
Re: Essex Football & Ahrens Great Polo Game identified
I think time wise you are looking at mid 1920s.
You could try sitting it in a bath of paraffin for a few weeks, then try a little heat, Won't be easy but as it's a pre war English machine the aluminium should be of better quality.
You could try sitting it in a bath of paraffin for a few weeks, then try a little heat, Won't be easy but as it's a pre war English machine the aluminium should be of better quality.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:59 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Need a Guru
- Replies: 17
- Views: 697
Re: Need a Guru
Hi Jerry, quite right. What was I thinking? PENNIES ONLY, something like this if you can find one.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:52 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Need a Guru
- Replies: 17
- Views: 697
Re: NEED A GURU PART II
If you are going to put the machine back to the old 1d coin, then yes, get a little label made saying "1d", or "one old penny. I think the machine will be worth more if put back to original coinage. There are some repro coin signs on Ebay UK, but they can be quite costly.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:40 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Need a Guru
- Replies: 17
- Views: 697
Re: NEED A GURU PART II
Don't sand the cabinet. Clean it with methylated spirit to get the grime off, then buff it up with a bee's wax polish. Keep the original lock and get a new key cut. The lock only has 2 levers and is very easy for a locksmith to re key. Those locks are very hard to come by. The 1p sign (one new pence...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Contraband Spain movie, 1955: arcade games identified
- Replies: 12
- Views: 507
Re: a tricky ID question for the Gurus
... looking closely it looks like there’s is a possible allwin door or game in it, as you can see spandrels, gallery and spiral track, unless my eyes are playing up again Looking at the two pictures side by side, I think you are right. !THUMBS! Must have been converted at some time. Well spotted To...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:29 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Contraband Spain movie, 1955: arcade games identified
- Replies: 12
- Views: 507
Re: a tricky ID question for the Gurus
The tall machine at the back with the red top is a mid 1930s Bryans Postcard Vending Machine.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Need a Guru
- Replies: 17
- Views: 697
Re: Need a Guru
Could anyone with a 'Win a Gift' or 'Win a Prize' tell me the dimensions of the white box that is dispensed please? Its looking more like this machine was probably more like a choc bar of some sort. Hi Jimmy, How you doing my friend :cool: I believe the gift boxes are 98mm x 49mm x 17mm. They will ...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:32 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Need a Guru
- Replies: 17
- Views: 697
Re: Need a Guru
As there is much debate as to the model of this machine !PUZZLED! and I should have mentioned this earlier !SORRY! If you look at the payout slide, the words "Gift Slide" are cast into it. :oops: As Oliver made about 50 different variants of the allwin machine, and also started to sell spa...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: Caley's 'Marching Chocolate' rail carriage vendors
- Replies: 6
- Views: 383
Re: Caley's 'Marching Chocolate' rail carriage vendors
I have had my detecting head on again. Old man with too much time on my hands! :oops: I have spoken with the team at the National Railway Museum in York. They told me they had never seen one before, nor do they have one in there collections, but between us we did manage to find an address for the co...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:27 pm
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: Caley's 'Marching Chocolate' rail carriage vendors
- Replies: 6
- Views: 383
Re: Now here is a 1d coin slot you couldn't miss
A bit more trawling the old newspapers and I found this description of the machines from Oct 1930. They were quite small and would not hold many bars.
The first batch of machines numbered 200.
The first batch of machines numbered 200.
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Need a Guru
- Replies: 17
- Views: 697
Re: Need a Guru
It could be this one by O. Whales. The artwork is in the Resources section of this forum.
Whales Win a Gift back and top flash
Whales Win a Gift back and top flash
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: Caley's 'Marching Chocolate' rail carriage vendors
- Replies: 6
- Views: 383
Re: Now here is a 1d coin slot you couldn't miss
Caley's chocolate was handed to the troops in WW1 as a morale booster as Paul says, and after WW1 it was marketed as a rival to Kendal Mint Cake. It was said to give you strength on your journey. :cool: When it came to WW2, apart from the shortage of coco hitting production, the factory was destroye...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Shefras boxing machine
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1018
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:01 pm
- Forum: Build a Slot Machine
- Topic: Scratch Built Gap-Win
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1794
Re: Scratch Built Gap-Win
WOW!!! Superb job, well done.
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: Build a Slot Machine
- Topic: Fortune Teller Machine Finished!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 312
Re: Fortune Teller Machine Finished!
Nice looking machine. Well done on getting it finished and working. I know only too well how much work goes into a project like this. I would love to take a look under the bonnet. Are you going to make a video of the mech?
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: Auction Community
- Topic: Fruite Whirle
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2346
Re: Fruite Whirle
Baloons' at 0:21 must be a rarity. Yes, although its rarity has just gone down by around 33%. I owned one for a good number of years, although I no longer have it. There are two collectors up north who have each owned one for many years, and as far as I am aware still have them, so that makes three...