Auto Sales
Rare location photograph of rotunda console vendor offering a wide range of differently priced confectionery. |
BAC 1930s
Beech-Nut Chewing Gum
Beechnut vendors were a common sight in the 1950s and '60s often sited around newsagents. You received a packet of gum for an old penny and a free one on every 4th penny used. The position of an arrow on the handle would indicate when the next free packet was due. |
Automatic Chewing Sweet Sales Ltd 1950s
Cadbury’s Chocolate
The elaborate Arabic styling of this fine and very early vendor promotes Cadbury's chocolate as an exotic luxury while targeting the new cycling craze demand for portable energy snacks, "The Favourite Beverage for Cyclists and Tourists - Gives Strength & Vigour to the System". |
Unknown maker Unknown date
Cigarettes
Blue painted three column metal wall-mounted cigarette dispensing machine with internal illumination and slots for 2D and 6D. Patent number GB324623. |
Clement Garrett 1930
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
Entirely Automatic
Three column, floor-standing chrome-plated steel-cased cigarette vending machine. |
Harper 1940s
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