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Oak Manufacturing Co. Premiere Card/Gum & similar vendors

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Just seen this on ebay. I've never seen the like before.
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They are a very common vending machine, particularly in the US. I remember them at the seasides in the early 70s vending the cards this one has. Originally designed for collectible cards.
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I've got one in me shed awaiting a restoration.
It's in better condition than that, perhaps I should put in on greedbay instead.
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Gumball and collector's card vendor 1D

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Hi,
Just picked up this from my local Antiques and Collector's Market.
Can anyone shed any light on it? It has no maker's name and runs on old penny 1D. Thinking 1950s maybe? Has a clever mech that vends a gumball and a card that alternates from left to right hoppers so the machine empties equally.
Thanks in advance.
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Not quite the same but pretty much:
Oak Manufacturing Co., I think 1930s (?)
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Thanks, yes I saw those types for sale but think they are USA ones. Mine seems like it might be British-made maybe. The 1D coin mech looks original and the display cards both have UK writing on the backs.
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The Oak Manufacturing Co. of Vernon, California (whose website and business seems to have closed, as of 2017) introduced the Premiere Combination Ball Gum and Picture Card Vendor in 1956. They made a range of small 'Acorn' gum vendors from 1948. The Premiere was marketed and distributed in Europe and the UK, on suitable coinage, by Confiserie Brabo of Antwerp, Belgium, which is why they're often called BRABO vendors.


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But as you point out, yours isn't quite like the Premiere.
One like it was sold here in 2017 with this description:
This one was owned by Amcomatic London. One Penny sticker is dated 1958.

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Amcomatic's badge suggests they were more than just a distributor (as this seller assumes):
Amcomatic (REGD) - THE AUTOMATIC MERCHANDISING CO., LTD., London REGD. No. 889.357 PATENT APPLIED FOR

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So, does it pre-date the Premiere? Clearly the mechanism is very similar.
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Thanks PM,
Yes that machine is identical, unlike the Premiere one.
I have just started stripping it and on the back of the display cards there is also that maker's name "Amcomatic" (dated 1958) but also "Universal Automatics Ltd" but I guess that could have just been who supplied the cards maybe?
Lovely machine though and will end up painted casing with polished castings.
More pics below.
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Another one here.
And Widget's front here.


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And a very glammed-up Premiere:



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I restored a Brabo version, like the one above, a few years ago. Here's a few pics of the insides, to see if they're the same as yours.
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Yes same as mine inside - thanks special when lit. Next job getting the right size/thickness cards for it! Anyone have any?
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I see another of these (as well as a Premiere) sold way back in the May 2005 Southern Counties auction:
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deano67 wrote: Wed Jun 19, 2019 4:15 pm Yes same as mine inside - thanks special when lit. Next job getting the right size/thickness cards for it! Anyone have any?
cheers
Mine only had 4 cards in. There's a box of them doing the rounds at the auctions, I tried to buy them, but they went too high.
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Hi,
I also have a Vintage Oak Vending machine (1956 ? )
The problem I have is:
#1... I am not a computer kind of person.
#2 I cannot find out anything about what Model I have.
Looking to refurbish it ...but don't even have a parts breakdown on it to see what I might require for parts.
It does dispense cards, one per side.
Not sure what coin config. it is.

Really could use some guidance on finding more out about what I have.
Thanking you in advance.
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Photos are the key!! We love photos, easy to upload (just ask if you need help) and response will be much better.
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I posted the above for swmeters and sent him the 'how to post images' link.
swmeters wrote:I found pics. of a torn-down Vending machine from a rebuild by coppinpr.
It is the same as what I am working on.
I would like to know what drives the card sliders back and forth. It seems I'm missing a connection to the gear that would rotate the levers.
Would anyone know where I could get this part? Or have a pic. of what it looks like?
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Here's what it looks like. It would be the mating gear that switches the cards from one side to the other.
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special when lit wrote: Wed Jun 19, 2019 2:40 pm I restored a Brabo version, like the one above, a few years ago. Here's a few pics of the insides, to see if they're the same as yours.
Yes... The part I am looking for is on Image 5/12. It is the gear and bushing. It's the only gear in the Pic. so I hope you know what I mean?
Can you let mr know how much you want for it???? Can we do dimensions ...if this is for sale?
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I won the Southern County one and still got it. Not got around to looking at it yet 🙄
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Still looking. Please see my advert in the Market.
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