Regent
This machine i had bye in USA, comes from Germany for export to england. Restored |
J&M ? 1930 er ?
Irish Sweepstakes
This peculiar arcade game is themed around the Irish Hospital Sweepstake which ran from 1930 to 1987, supposedly to raise funds for under-invested medical services in Ireland, but mostly to line the lottery owners' pockets. The lottery involved nurses drawing the winning tickets (with names of racehorses on them) from a huge rotating drum. Likewise, to play this machine you use the steering wheel to guide the nurse across the rotating drum. The object is for her outstretched arm to release each catch on the drum, thereby lighting a lamp behind the corresponding horse's head. When sufficient lamps are lit, the player's coin is returned. This appears to be the only game which Stevenson and Lovett saw fit to patent: GB607795 |
Stevenson and Lovett 1948
Zunt
Zunt appears to be an alternative variant, perhaps a re-issue of the Advance Pin Table, with the same mechanical arrangement, playfield layout, and small small oak counter-top cabinet. Both games are similar to the Mills Novelty Co.'s "Baby Official" Pin Table of 1932. This example is missing the coin entry knob, which was a distinctive feature of the design. |
Ewan, White & Co 1930s
Advance Pin Table
Judging by surviving numbers, these little oak counter-top pin-tables were made in considerable numbers. The design is a very conservative bagatelle layout and bears more than a passing resemblance to Mills Novelty Co.'s "Baby Official" Pin Table of 1932. This example has a retail label for T H Moor, Ironmonger, South Molton. The company made a very similar game called Zunt. |
Ewan, White & Co 1932
Lifeline
This was one of several very simple but visually attractive games made by the British Manufacturing Company which used the coin as a projectile and required little or no mechanism. The scene is painted directly onto the front glass and the backboard behind. The aim is to fire a penny onto the top of the lighthouse. If it falls on either side of the coast behind the lighthouse (marked 'Reserve'), it is retained by a clip. Further coins falling to Reserve, or falling anywhere else, go straight to the operator's cashbox. In this way, the game can pay between 1 to 3 coins for a win (2 reserve coins, plus the player's penny). Originally there would have been a marquee on top with the name of the game. |
BMCo. 1930s
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