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badpenny wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:07 am Welcome to the forum …….
TreeFrog will be along at some point, he loves these …… to the point that he owns all the others ever made and stores them at the top of a castle turret somewhere secret.

BP

All apart from my three, that is...

Splendid machine. Ideal for a beginner in the wonderful world of slot machine collecting. Originally on Australian sixpence (which is the same as ours), and certainly worth converting back. It still has the 'poker' reels, which is a bonus in Britain; they mostly have Mills-type fruits. Is it all in ...

I've always liked the style of these, and with the dark finish, the chrome really stands out.
I don't like side venders, though. They are an important part of US slot machine history, but I've don't remember seeing one in Britain, even blanked-off.

I'm fairly sure the RIVIERA model was introduced before (UK) decimalisation, but probably only in 6d. or 1/- 'club' versions. By the time they reached the penny arcades, the NEW penny will have been in use. Jubilee made much of the change to New Money in their advertising, seeing it as the 'latest t...

I wonder what proportion were on ha'penny play? Most arcades kept an old allwin to mop up the odd ha'pennies at the bottom of our pockets, but I don't imagine many were ordered new after 1930.

Numbers instead of fruit were generally a British idea; the fruit symbols still carried a whiff of 'organized crime' in the 1940s and '50s. The legal status of these machines was questionable in Britain, and dealers such as Tom Boland tried to minimise the 'dodgy' aspects such as the 10 stop/20 symb...

Fisher & Ludlow were also famous for steel motor-car bodies. Rootes Bros., at first, then BMC.
I believe the company was bought-up and then lost in the Nationalisation debacle.

Don't worry about it.
I'll take it as it is.

I don't believe that to be a Berkeley, the polished side strips are wrong.
You'll have some fun with the reelstrips. There are spurious lemons everywhere, and melons appear to have been entirely eradicated!

My Anglia van was so old it was Thames.

What a delightful picture.
BALLY Gold Award conversions. Splendid.
Larry the Lamb looks a lot less wooden than I remember him!

PM Sent.

Thanks all.

Me too, but it's 284 miles.
Each way!

An odd question. I'm moving my machines to a larger room. It used to be a kitchen, and has fitted cabinets etc., which I thought might form the shelves on which American-type 'Slots' could be placed. Trouble is, they just seem too high. Does anyone know how high Mills-type machines were above the gr...

I have a liking for the BALLY Gold Award conversions, but if you add the prices listed, it gets rather steep for a non-working example.
I would only expect to get £300 tops for my working one, and it's back on 6d. for two pulls.

It takes what was billed as 'The Coin of the Future', 5np or 1/-.
In legal terms, it was still a sixpenny machine, because you got two pulls per coin.
I don't think it was ever available in pre-decimal form, which is a shame, as I love the style.

"He's in Europe" probably means something like "Tax in Post".

Genuine GPO Telephone No. 150 for fifteen quid.
Now THAT'S a bargain!
Beromat types are still cheap; I wish I liked them. Alwins in general I thought reasonable.

VERY interesting. I'll take a copy of the book, as soon as it is out. In the meantime, can I ask you about Mutoscope negatives. I've always assumed that the camera side of things was unchanged, and that only the format of the prints differed, depending on whether for projection or Mutoscope display....