The platform of these rather austere scales is set into the railway platform of Uxbridge station.

Rare survivor, this highly Art Deco voice recorder in the form of a New York skyscraper briefly appears in the film Brighton rock (1947). "Coin operated. Electrically records the voice. Delivers record (which will play on any gramophone) and posting envelope".

The mechanism of this Birmingham-made penny scale has much in common with the classic design by Percival Everitt of 1884, which was also used in Salter scales.

Substantial cast iron scales that would have seen service at railway stations and other public thoroughfares.