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Same for Ol Whartle Ltd...

Two manufacturers there I haven't heard of!
And Redcar's in my patch, too.

It might be better, initially, to leave it on the smaller coin. It must have had new slides, unless someone has carefully brazed the penny slides up.
It would probably take the pre-decimal ha'penny as it is, which might be a little bit odd, but at least gets rid of the decimal menace.

Spiral games fit into the 'Can't win on them' category.
I'll be visiting an arcade at Scarborough tomorrow, which has one. I'll report back if I get a win!
Wonders Boomerang also fits this category.

That's likely to be a conversion of a Novomat, or some similar German type.
Can't imagine how the 2p coin conversion was done. The original conversion to Old Penny left the payout slides perilously thin, which, along with the pot-metal castings, didn't help with longevity.

It all looks complete, and ready to plug in.
You will have to work out where the notch needs to be. This is what stops the disc in the right place after the payout has been made, ready for the next payout. The two silver-coloured studs will probably be involved in this process, too.

The missing rotor will be in the form of a disc, with a brass wiper which can join the central brass ring to one of the studs. It will also have a notch or notches to operate the switch at the bottom. The studs correspond to the 5-4-3-2-1 pulses mentioned earlier, but not necessarily in order. Can t...

Great to welcome another enthusiast from my part of the world!

Are cherries on the third reel a Jennings feature? I've never noticed them.
I thought the concept of 'three cherries' started with the Bell-Fruit electro-mechanicals.

Ah! The distance may interfere with that notion.
I imagine not many Nostalgic Machines were sold in Australia!

Have you thought of building an allwin to your own design, using salvageable parts from old Nostalgic Machines?
I have two donors waiting for such re-use.

Now we're getting somewhere. Note that the single cherry on the payout card pays 4, same as the oranges. This is odd, and tells us that one operation of the payout slide drops four coins. The higher awards are therefore 2, 3, 4 and 5 operations respectively. We now need to locate the device which ca...

It's certainly rare. My 'patch' ran from Whitley Bay to Scarborough, and I never saw one of those.
Murray Mints are oval. I hope they rolled out all right!

That MUST be a Jackpot Front off something else.
Have the wooden sides been cut away to make it fit?

I'd love a look inside.
Money Honey originally had the hopper payout.
Your payout cup suggests a PE conversion to 5/- Gold Award, with two solenoid payout tubes on the inside of the door.
Your payout card suggests that the hopper is still there.
If only they could talk!

ERNIE, as opposed to ERIK?

I don't think that's an Allwin.
It would be stretching credibility to think Treefrog had not yet owned an Allwin.

We don't see many of these 'electro-mechanical' machines on here. They are often regarded as 'too modern'.
What machine is it from?

The mirrors certainly don't close over the cabinet front.
Probably because they are off a dressing table...

Are the mirrors mounted on the machine?
I thought the machine was photographed standing on a dressing table...