Mills Hi Top.

[coppinpr]

Many of these (including the one on show here) were running on 1d. Both 1d escalators (which do exist but are rare) and jackpots taking 1d were problematic and got removed. There was also a period when variable payout jackpots were illegal in the UK so they simply got thrown out.
Many companies in both the USA and the UK were fitting the long lasting Mills mechs into new cases pretty much right from the start. All the early Buckley machines in the USA had Mills mechs as did the Bolland machines in the UK.

[dutchboy]

Thanks for that paul

[brigham]

I also have one,I dont know why they used that nasty star on the front which is too big and cheaply made

If Stalin had decided to allow slot machines...

Seriously, though, it's a nice looking machine, Mills or Mayfield. Is it still available, and if so, how close to Stockton-on-Tees is it?

[sutton]

Mills hightop £500 phone 07447 515935. No text email please

Brentwood Essex .

[coppinpr]

This post kicked me into digging out my Mayfield with a view to fixing it up. couple of things struck me at once,first the coin entry on mine is on the other side,this would make it a drop down rather than a roll down also although it has a pristine Mayfield Electronics address label inside (they were based in Cowhill, Chadderton, Lancs if anyone is interested) the bar across the front says "Casino Automatics" a name I guess they used on some machines.

If Stalin had decided to allow slot machines...

He did, for some years, slots and casino games were not banned in Russia till April 1928 after an independent(?) report suggested gambling wasn't in the spirit of the communist way of life.

[brigham]

Stalin in '28,
Hitler in '35.
Truman in '51.

What have world leaders got against slot machines?

[treefrog]

Having an interest that has a little bit of an illegal aspect to it adds spice to the whole experience.......remember the days of MW CB radio, with the large whip aerials and covert gathering on a Saturday night with your buddies......as soon as they legalised it everyone stopped.

[badpenny]

I guess the fact that was money to be made but not for the governments concerned.

[coppinpr]

Laws on gambling, both past and present, never cease to amaze me. Japan has a long history of making gambling machines yet has never, ever, had even one casino in Japan. The laws are so strict that even the Yakuza have never bothered to run underground casinos to any great extent. This, of course, is crazy as Pachinko parlors, often with over 500 machines are commonplace and run 24/7.
Japan also has at least three VERY strange legal gambling pastimes: bicycle racing on short oval tracks (the betting is complex and the event has to be seen to be believed), asphalt motor cycle speedway (this is even stranger, a pool of 500 riders has to remain cut off from the outside world for 72 hours before a meeting, the bikes are also kept in a compound and randomly selected for each race, all to avoid race fixing), but the strangest of all has to be the mobile gambling venues where men meet to play "rock, scissors, paper" for 1000 yen stakes with huge bonuses if you win 5 in a row.