Oliver Whales CHAD WOT? allwin

[pennymachines]

The Allwin Supreme picture is from Cowan's Auctions, Oct 9 2010: Lot 675, Price Realized: $180.00.

Ask for a photo with the door open.

[badpenny]

And the other one is from Clicky

Compliment him on his sheer white wallpaper and ask him if he can give you decorating tips.

[scottie]

Thank you so much Badpenny and Pennymachines...
Yes, they're the same pictures. Just got another email from the so called seller - they told me they are in the U.S.A.... Ah.... So I told them my brother lives there and would it be OK if he picked the machines up, so it would save them the cost of shipping them to me... I wonder what story they will come up with now...
Darn - I was really looking forward to buying them.
Scottie.

[badpenny]

Tell him you want to buy his machines immediately and here's the payment ...........

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[scottie]

Good one....
So how did you find the picture in the first place?????
Did you remember seeing the picture and put 2 and 2 together?
scottie

[badpenny]

I don't know about Mr P but I used two free applications.
1) One is part of Google itself. You can download it from Google Chrome Application Shop, when you put the cursor on an image and right click Google starts searching for the image and similar ones world wide.

2) Application called TinEye which is the same sort of thing.

For example if I click on the Forum Logo on this page top right hand corner.
This what TinEye tells me ......

1 Result https://pennymachines.co.uk
Searched over 2.2182 billion images in 0.813 seconds.
for file: styles/3myl_sable/im...

I'm sure others know of even more ways of doing this and probably even better?
All very handy, but I still have a drawer upstairs with over a dozen odd socks!

[pennymachines]

Nothing quite as sophisticated with me.
I saw it while researching the mystery (Philip Shefras) Allwin Supremes.
Having found reference to its sale at Cowan's on other sites I used a Google Advanced Search function to pin down the specific sale.
Put allwin supreme site:cowanauctions.com into Google to restrict your search to that domain or site - very useful for sites with inadequate or no internal search facility.

they told me they are in the U.S.A....

They probably are, as they were both American auctions...

Mr P (insomniac)

[badpenny]

That's all very well Mr P but what about my socks?

[pennymachines]

Didn't I see them in Stockport last September?
You know, at Omega Auctions just after

Lot 387: ELVIS PRESLEY - 1977 Jumpsuit Underwear. The briefs were worn on stage in 1977 and appear to be unwashed with some stains apparent...

The underpants didn't sell, but I think your socks did quite well.

[badpenny]

Oh-my-god Auctions? I'm not using them again, by the time I paid 22.5% vendor's I ended up paying them, darn it.

[pennymachines]

by the time I paid 22.5% vendor's I ended up paying them, darn it.

If you'd darned them, they might have fetched more.

[coppinpr]

One interesting point from the "Chad" slogans, at the beginning of the war the most common was "Wot me worry" which was taken up by Mad Mag's Alfred E Newman character much later and was destined to appear on the Sega machines in the '70s.

[badpenny]

I'd like to see your evidence for that one Paul.

I think you're confuddling your icons there.

Although the image of A.E.N actually predates Mad Magazine by about 50 years, "What/Wot me worry?" was still his catch phrase and was adopted for Alfred E Neuman by Mad Magazine.

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Whilst Chad was associated with shortages and rationing. His catch phrase "What no ......?"
Perhaps he was preparing himself for .......

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[scottie]

Gee, you would think if someone was trying to cheat someone that they would keep track of the things they were saying.
I just got home and checked my emails.
I had gotten three pictures of different wall machines...WOT, ALLWIN SUPREME AND A ALLWIN DELUXE.
They told me that they had five machines in total.
OK, great - send me pictures of the other two.
Well, they send me pictures of four more machines: DOUBLE YOUR WIN, ROTOLITE, WIN-A- AERO AND A CIG MACHINES which is on UK ebay right now - same machine mounted on a wall by itself, same color of wall and the 3rd picture is even sideways .....
I had told these people that my brother lives close by and would pick them up... Well, they will drive to my brother's place to save him the drive BUT they have to be paid in full .....fools!!!!!!
Cheers,
scottie.

[greg]

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Hi..Everyone...I was wondering if anyone knows the correct size of Chad's balls and how many he should have? I recently bought a Chad Allwin on Ebay USA. It needed a good cleaning and tune up before it was playable. It has two balls instead of one and they were bigger then usual. There were two- 9/16" (aprox. 14.3mm) balls instead of the usual one 1/2" (aprox. 12.7mm) ball. Does anyone know what is correct?

Thanks GREG

[13rebel]

Hi Greg, your Chad machine should have just one ball in it and, as it was made by Oliver Whales, it is customary to have a 9/16 inch ball. Bryans machines have half inch balls. If 9/16 fits into the win tubes I would be inclined to use that.

[greg]

Thanks for the help Rebel. Normally when I get a new Allwin I replace the old rusty pitted ball with a new 1/2" one. I checked the size in the first machine I bought, which was a Bryan's, and it was 1/2". So, I figured they all used the same size.

I just went back and checked the original balls on my Easy Perm and my Line Fifteen. The Easy Perm was 9/16" like it should be but the Line Fifteen was 31/64". No clue what was going on with the Line Fifteen.

As soon as the snow melts here I am off to the ball bearing store for some shiny new 9/16" balls.

[harv123]

Topic merged - Site Admin.

Good Afternoon All,

I have been given this CHAD AllWin Machine from a relative. I used to play with it when I was younger and don't know much about them. Could anyone shed some light on when it was made and what its about? It still works which is pretty cool!

Also any ideas on what it is worth? Not that I think I would sell it.

[brigham]

It's by Oliver Whales, and was one of my childhood favourites. In fact, it was where I first met Chad!

[coppinpr]

If you're asking "who was Chad" well Chad and Kilroy pretty much became the same character during WW2 but in fact it's thought Chad (1937) pre dates Kilroy (earliest confirmed sighting 1939) which was the predominant version in the USA (Chad was very British). Both Chad and Kilroy appeared looking over a wall with the slogan "Kilroy/Chad was here" but Chad often had other topical slogans as well, very often starting with the mispelled "WOT". Mad mag picked up on this after the war and used it in much the same way, followed by some topical jibe. During WW2 Chad became a mild joke propaganda graffiti in much the same way as "ban the bomb" was in the '60s but more light hearted. Chad slogans lasted well into the '50s and I remember them well as a kid (in fact I remember drawing a few on walls). In my view no other Allwin theme captures the feel of the allwin age better than yours, keep it safe.