BMCo Airplane ?

[alan57]

Can anyone identify this BMCo allwin, I'm looking to add this to my collection, but never seen one like this before. Is it a genuine BMCo machine?

[gameswat]

Looks fine to me, though that is a small photo to see detail. Don't think I've ever seen a faked BMCO before?

[pennymachines]

Yes, definitely an early BMCo. and a nice looking machine.
The only other example I could find on site was this playfield posted by Livinginthepast. Could it be the same one?
It would have originally had a marquee with the name of the game.
There's a similar game called (I think) Tip Top, with plain cups in place of the aircraft cups.

[JC]

If anyone cares to trawl through the auction results in the Arena, we sold a similar machine at Coventry several years ago. It may be the same machine, although I don't recall the red spandrells (which may have been painted since - they should be polished aluminium).
Incidentally, it's not strictly speaking an allwin - more a sort of vertical bagatelle.

[pennymachines]

I trawled but only found "Silver Cups".
Yes, it was the red painted spandrels which led me to think the front might be the same machine Alan posted.

[JC]

Ah yes, it was Silver cups I was thinking of. When I said 'similar', what I actually meant was 'completely different' .
That said, they are essentially the same machine, with exactly the same playfield layout and game-play.

[alan57]

Thanks guys for the information