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.

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.

Imitating the product's packaging, this elegant, tubular design was one of BMR's earliest.

These solid little single column cast aluminium vending machines with their enamel product advertising and brass coin releases, were once common outside shops and stations dispensing VAL Peppermints, Frujetta, Violet Cachous, cigarettes and other small packaged products for one penny.

This machine is on display at the Staffordshire County Museum, Shugborough Hall, Millford, Staffordshire.