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- Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:09 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Aristocrat Sheerline One Arm Bandit
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4226
- Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:06 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Aristocrat Sheerline One Arm Bandit
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4226
Re: Aristocrat Sheerline One Arm Bandit
Splendid machine. Ideal for a beginner in the wonderful world of slot machine collecting. Originally on Australian sixpence (which is the same as ours), and certainly worth converting back. It still has the 'poker' reels, which is a bonus in Britain; they mostly have Mills-type fruits. Is it all in ...
- Wed Feb 27, 2019 9:21 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Person to service Caille mech 1934 Dictator
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5633
Re: Person to service Caille mech 1934 Dictator
I've always liked the style of these, and with the dark finish, the chrome really stands out.
I don't like side venders, though. They are an important part of US slot machine history, but I've don't remember seeing one in Britain, even blanked-off.
I don't like side venders, though. They are an important part of US slot machine history, but I've don't remember seeing one in Britain, even blanked-off.
- Wed Feb 27, 2019 9:13 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Jubilee Rivera
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3118
Re: Jubilee Rivera
I'm fairly sure the RIVIERA model was introduced before (UK) decimalisation, but probably only in 6d. or 1/- 'club' versions. By the time they reached the penny arcades, the NEW penny will have been in use. Jubilee made much of the change to New Money in their advertising, seeing it as the 'latest t...
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 5:08 pm
- Forum: Discoveries
- Topic: My half penny play Payramid
- Replies: 28
- Views: 16929
Re: My half penny play Payramid
I wonder what proportion were on ha'penny play? Most arcades kept an old allwin to mop up the odd ha'pennies at the bottom of our pockets, but I don't imagine many were ordered new after 1930.
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:00 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: B Firman & Co. products
- Replies: 131
- Views: 65434
Re: Firmans
Numbers instead of fruit were generally a British idea; the fruit symbols still carried a whiff of 'organized crime' in the 1940s and '50s. The legal status of these machines was questionable in Britain, and dealers such as Tom Boland tried to minimise the 'dodgy' aspects such as the 10 stop/20 symb...
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 9:52 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Vintage Rowntrees Aero chocolate vending machine
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7879
Re: Vintage Rowntrees Aero chocolate vending machine
Fisher & Ludlow were also famous for steel motor-car bodies. Rootes Bros., at first, then BMC.
I believe the company was bought-up and then lost in the Nationalisation debacle.
I believe the company was bought-up and then lost in the Nationalisation debacle.
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 10:37 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Bally Gold Award payout problem
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7337
Re: HELP PLEASE ! BALLY PAYOUTS !
Don't worry about it.
I'll take it as it is.
I'll take it as it is.
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 8:39 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Sega clone
- Replies: 31
- Views: 17035
Re: Mystery Machine???
I don't believe that to be a Berkeley, the polished side strips are wrong.
You'll have some fun with the reelstrips. There are spurious lemons everywhere, and melons appear to have been entirely eradicated!
You'll have some fun with the reelstrips. There are spurious lemons everywhere, and melons appear to have been entirely eradicated!
- Fri Feb 22, 2019 3:28 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: B Firman & Co. products
- Replies: 131
- Views: 65434
Re: Firmans
My Anglia van was so old it was Thames.
- Fri Feb 22, 2019 3:08 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: How High is a Bandit off the Ground?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3242
Re: How High is a Bandit off the Ground?
What a delightful picture.
BALLY Gold Award conversions. Splendid.
Larry the Lamb looks a lot less wooden than I remember him!
BALLY Gold Award conversions. Splendid.
Larry the Lamb looks a lot less wooden than I remember him!
- Fri Feb 22, 2019 1:23 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: For Sale & Wanted ads just placed
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6073
- Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:21 am
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: How High is a Bandit off the Ground?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3242
Re: How High is a Bandit off the Ground?
Thanks all.
- Thu Feb 21, 2019 6:43 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: For Sale & Wanted ads just placed
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6073
Re: For Sale & Wanted ads just placed
Me too, but it's 284 miles.
Each way!
Each way!
- Thu Feb 21, 2019 6:28 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: How High is a Bandit off the Ground?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3242
How High is a Bandit off the Ground?
An odd question. I'm moving my machines to a larger room. It used to be a kitchen, and has fitted cabinets etc., which I thought might form the shelves on which American-type 'Slots' could be placed. Trouble is, they just seem too high. Does anyone know how high Mills-type machines were above the gr...
- Wed Feb 20, 2019 4:04 pm
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: For Sale & Wanted ads just placed
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6073
Re: For Sale & Wanted ads just placed
I have a liking for the BALLY Gold Award conversions, but if you add the prices listed, it gets rather steep for a non-working example.
I would only expect to get £300 tops for my working one, and it's back on 6d. for two pulls.
I would only expect to get £300 tops for my working one, and it's back on 6d. for two pulls.
- Mon Feb 18, 2019 3:08 pm
- Forum: Questions and Answers
- Topic: Jubilee Mini Maxi
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6409
Re: Jubilee Mini Maxi
It takes what was billed as 'The Coin of the Future', 5np or 1/-.
In legal terms, it was still a sixpenny machine, because you got two pulls per coin.
I don't think it was ever available in pre-decimal form, which is a shame, as I love the style.
In legal terms, it was still a sixpenny machine, because you got two pulls per coin.
I don't think it was ever available in pre-decimal form, which is a shame, as I love the style.
- Sat Feb 16, 2019 1:42 pm
- Forum: Let's Talk about Slots
- Topic: Pace or Mills
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6993
Re: Pace or Mills
"He's in Europe" probably means something like "Tax in Post".
- Fri Feb 08, 2019 3:53 pm
- Forum: Auction Community
- Topic: EH / Collector Connector sales
- Replies: 1406
- Views: 509029
Re: Elephant House Auctions
Genuine GPO Telephone No. 150 for fifteen quid.
Now THAT'S a bargain!
Beromat types are still cheap; I wish I liked them. Alwins in general I thought reasonable.
Now THAT'S a bargain!
Beromat types are still cheap; I wish I liked them. Alwins in general I thought reasonable.
- Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:19 am
- Forum: Open Forum
- Topic: Reproduction Mutoscope reels?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12402
Re: Reproduction Mutoscope reels?
VERY interesting. I'll take a copy of the book, as soon as it is out. In the meantime, can I ask you about Mutoscope negatives. I've always assumed that the camera side of things was unchanged, and that only the format of the prints differed, depending on whether for projection or Mutoscope display....