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these people do not restore, but they supply the vending industry with many different components, they may be useful
www.abbeychart.co.uk
01367 711900
They are located on a small industrial unit site just outside of Faringdon in Oxfordshire, good luck with restoration

Gameswat wrote:there's a matching hole on the left door side in the same place. So most likely a pair of shocker handles I imagine

Confirmed by the two semi circular cut-outs in the back-board to allow the handles to pass through.

I bow my head to superior knowledge Mr PM

Welcome to the Forum Nick, your machine mechanism looks to be a typical conversion from an old Saxony reserve ball machine (1920s/1930s) housed in a cabinet from around that time and appears to have French style chrome fittings - coin cup, lever/backplate. The hammer cover box is from a 1950s-1960s ...

badpenny wrote:However the tiny little brass cogs aren't really beefy enough to take the strain

pennymachines wrote:I also had one and was equally unimpressed with the construction

Seems that this Apollo shares the same phrase 'Houston we have a problem'

classicgambler wrote:Anyone know who runs this website: http://www.slotmachinedepot.co.uk?

Yes, he is a member of this Forum so hopefully you should get an answer.

Well done Stuart, so what is the next project to fill that vacant sailor space?

Well done jonathans257,
I am sure that Nigel, the original producer of Nostalgic Machines, would be pleased so see this - not sure if he still logs onto this site or if he is still involved with slots?

looks a tidy machine Alan, has the chrome been re-done?

A rather nice late 5 win in streamline case that was at a Knowle auction around 2008 showing the 'other' direction of stripe and rectangular payout cup.

For many years they went from bottom left to top right, however, in later years they went from bottom right to top left. It was suggested that Jim Bryan got it wrong when he ordered a batch in the 1970s but who knows? These 'back to front' backflashes are often found on machines that have the later ...

Dual Racer is a nice machine, if you look closely it only has one slot. I was shown one of these a few years ago (could be the very same) but could not afford it at the time and if my memory serves me right, when you put in your penny, it is then propelled around the track in the right hand game and...

We are all behind you Jerry (metaphorically speaking of course) - so we miss a magazine - no worries, I suspected that you were concentrating on the arcade.
Hope you have a good Easter after all this.
Richard

I think it was originally a reserve ball machine and the metal back plate has been replaced when converting it as it bears no evidence of any reserve mech being attached. The lever arm activating the payout slide has all the holes required for a reserve mech machine.

pennymachines wrote:J&M came up with this design on some of their allwins before Wonders

thanks Mr PM I will file that piece of info in my grey matter for future recall (if I am lucky)

The Allwin Deluxe was probably made between WW1 & WW11 the case looks 1920s -ish. The 'made in Saxony' label was used widely on imported German machines instead of 'made in Germany' - for obvious reasons. The patent number refers to a patent dealing with the ball release mechanism commonly used ...

badpenny wrote:Don't get me started on motorbikes

This is the only golden nugget I have owned........BSA Gold Star
ok off topic but one hell of a machine for 1959.......wish I had it now, sold it for £120 35 years ago - now worth £20K !!!!

slotalot wrote:If I lived a bit nearer I would be down to help

So would I Stuart.
Hope it's not too servere Jerry and you will be up and running again soon.

Looks like a post war mech recycled in a 1950s case by O.W.

The long lost secret to William Bryan's Bumper development is revealed - King George V is pictured tweeking the design of original pre-production models of the Bumper.