American "Duncan Parking Meter"
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American "Duncan Parking Meter"
Over the years I've tried more than once to achieve something with an old parking meter.
Apart from sticking a broken one on a bit of scaffold pole and shoving it in the back garden, I failed miserably.
The ex Brighton & Hove ones being sold through Exchange & Mart at the time were salt air damaged, no locks and described as “working perhaps”.
Very recently I went over to visit an old mate (fellow collector) who shall remain nameless. Anyway Carl Stein and I go back ages, but see each other rarely these days. I sat down and before we said anything he produced a working Parking Meter on a small stand. Plonking it down in front of me he inserted a shilling and wound the handle ….
“Right” he said “15 minutes, now what do you want to discuss?”
Suddenly my interest was rekindled!
It took a few months but I tracked down an American Duncan Meter. It had locks, it worked and was exactly as it was the day it was removed off the streets and wrapped in a cardboard box.
I also had access to a small cast iron stand.
So a spot of rattly can, a quick blast of home made water transfers and a first time dabble at Hydro Dipping.
Now ….
Apart from sticking a broken one on a bit of scaffold pole and shoving it in the back garden, I failed miserably.
The ex Brighton & Hove ones being sold through Exchange & Mart at the time were salt air damaged, no locks and described as “working perhaps”.
Very recently I went over to visit an old mate (fellow collector) who shall remain nameless. Anyway Carl Stein and I go back ages, but see each other rarely these days. I sat down and before we said anything he produced a working Parking Meter on a small stand. Plonking it down in front of me he inserted a shilling and wound the handle ….
“Right” he said “15 minutes, now what do you want to discuss?”
Suddenly my interest was rekindled!
It took a few months but I tracked down an American Duncan Meter. It had locks, it worked and was exactly as it was the day it was removed off the streets and wrapped in a cardboard box.
I also had access to a small cast iron stand.
So a spot of rattly can, a quick blast of home made water transfers and a first time dabble at Hydro Dipping.
Now ….
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Re: American "Duncan Parking Meter"
Great job. I like it. Looks a bit like a device for contacting alien life forms from a 1950s sci-fi movie, but that's most likely the stand giving that impression.
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Re: American "Duncan Parking Meter"
Install on a pole next to the roadway in front of your home, BP, and start making some real money.
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Re: American "Duncan Parking Meter"
Looks great. I've go a double one that I've been meaning to do something with for years.
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Re: American "Duncan Parking Meter"
Not sure I agree, isn't it a bit of a pale pail?
For parking in stereo Gazza?special when lit wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 12:13 pm Looks great. I've go a double one that I've been meaning to do something with for years.
I think I was trying to go for a bit of a hybrid/sentient look ... wtf that means.
I'm in enough trouble with the local council without sensible ideas as well.john t peterson wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 11:26 am Install on a pole next to the roadway in front of your home, BP, and start making some real money.
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