Category: Vendors
Cadbury’s (various chocolates)
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Cadbury’s (various chocolates)
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Unknown maker 1970
Cigarettes (2 Column )
Cigarettes (2 Column )
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Unknown maker Unknown date
Cigarettes (3 Column)
Cigarettes (3 Column)
The elaborate construction and "police box" style, complete with illuminating top-box, suggest a late '20s - early '30s date. The badge tells us it was made by the Caledonian Automatic Scale Co. Ltd. of Edinburgh, but unfortunately nothing is presently known about that company. |
Wistoft 1920s
Medicine vendor
Medicine vendor
Like the BAC's large, metal, floor-standing 'platform' machines, this unit was rented to the shop/operator and remained the property of the Allied Chemical Co. Ltd. who were a subsidiary of BAC. |
BAC 1920s
Pascal Ambrosia Devonshire Milk Chocolate
Pascal Ambrosia Devonshire Milk Chocolate
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BMR 1927
Pascal Pearl Drops
Pascal Pearl Drops
Imitating the product's packaging, this elegant, tubular design was one of BMR's earliest. |
BMR 1927
Platform Tickets
Platform Tickets
Two examples of BAC's Platform Ticket vendor (patent GB191002131), the first sporting a later enamel (British Railways came into existence in 1948 as part of Clement Attlees's policy of nationalising public services). |
BAC 1910
Wills’s Woodbine Cigarettes
Wills’s Woodbine Cigarettes
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Unknown maker Unknown date
Wills’s Woodbine Cigarettes
Wills’s Woodbine Cigarettes
This machine is on display at the Staffordshire County Museum, Shugborough Hall, Millford, Staffordshire. |
BAC Unknown date
Wrigleys Chewing Gum
Wrigleys Chewing Gum
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Unknown maker Unknown date