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Automatic Age

Issue: 1927 June

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T H E N A T IO N A L M A G A ZIN E OF T H E V E N D IN G M A C H IN E
IN D U S T R Y
Covering Automatic Machines and Coin-Controlled Devices o f
Every Description
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This Is the Age
of Automatic Service
and it has arrived with a vengeance.
W e are carrying a news story in this number telling of the
impending activities of The Remington Arms Company in the
vending machine field.
Their entrance into this field marks the
advent of the first really large and important company into the
manufacture and sale of service machines.
Their advent into the
automatic field will give prestige to the industry.
The brains,
ability, and engineering organization which The Remington Com­
pany has so successfully used in the developing of arms, ammu­
nition, cutlery and cash registers will be utilized in building up
its latest industry.
These forces will, no doubt, be augmented
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ky the addition of the best brains and experience in the automatic
Ending machine field.
In the purchase of The Universal Sales
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mPany of Boston, The Remington Company takes over a concern
that has a thorough knowledge of the industry and one of the
m° st progressive of the vending machine companies.
There is
n° doubt but that the distribution of nationally advertised package
£°ods by automatic machines is extremely popular and will become
rn° re so as better machines are made.
Cigar stores, 5 and 10
cer*t stores, chain stores, factories, office buildings, railroad sta­
tions, buses, etc. are all markets for various types of machines
aild the largest manufacturers are now making articles that can
be sold in machines.
And sensing the trend of the times the
^ ° ehler Die Casting Company of Brooklyn, New York, the world’s
lat'gest producers of die castings, will shortly enter the automatic
field with a stock machine that will make possible the broadening
0f ordinary vending into a business approximating, or augmenting
that of store merchandising.
Truly, this is the age of automatic service.
The industry is
yet in its infancy but is a lusty youngster and promises to become
a eighty influential member of the commercial family.
Solution of the
Ending
Machine
In our May number we promised our
headers a serial story on the evolution of the vending machine to
begin in this issue.
forthcoming.
We regret to report this story will not be
The unexpected death of Mr. Frank Mills who was
gathering data for this series of articles writes finis to the under­
taking for the time being.
One of our friends, a pioneer in the industry, has tentatively
Promised to help in the preparation of series of articles on this
interesting subject and we hope to offer the first installment of
the story in an early number.
It will be of interest to every
o p e r a to r .
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