AUTOMATIC AGE
Ju n e , 1935
that the company has found it neces
sary to install an additional new bat
tery of four high speed Routers—the
most modern machines yet to be de
veloped.
These machines have a
speed of 35,000 revolutions a minute!
At Rock-Ola, they are being used
mostly for routing on play boards for
games, as well as on bases for the
new Rock-Ola Multi-Selector.
Eleven of these modern machines
are already operating at full capacity
in the Rock-Ola plant.
However,
Rock-Ola officials state that heavy in
creases in production schedules have
made it necessary to install immedi
ately these four new high-speed Rout
ers.
Some Departments on Double Shift
Rock-Ola officials state that, even
with the greatly enlarged facilities
at their new plant, it has been neces
sary for quite some time to work more
than half the departments on double
shifts.
Some idea of the big scale on which
production is carried out at the Rock-
Ola plant can be gathered from a
statement made by railway officials,
who have given out the information
that as many as 11 carloads of lum
ber have been switched into the Rock-
Ola plant in a single day.
This bears out the information
coming from a reliable source that
the Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corpo
ration is turning out several hundred
cabinets a day for other companies
in the industry. Many observers will
note in this a new and interesting de
velopment that speaks well for the
future progress of our industry.
Trippe Specializes In
Rebuilt Games
Believing that a machine that no
longer attracts play in one location
may be new to another spot, the
Ideal Novelty Company of St. Louis
makes a specialty of reconditioning
games and putting them in first class
working order.
“A machine that breaks down
while on location is naturally a total
loss, both to the location owner and
to the operator,” Mr. Carl Trippe,
head of the Ideal firm pointed out.
“We try to minimize the number of
repair calls on machines which leave
our display rooms by first making
sure they are mechanically perfect.”
Mz-. Trippe is well known to mem
bers of the trade, having built up
one of the largest distributing or
ganizations in the Missouri area.
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Lee Jones Opens
A rt Bar
Tall glasses clinked and songs rang
out as members of the trade helped
Lee S. Jones christen the new “One
Price” Circular Parisian Art Bar
which opened Sunday, June 16, in the
offices of the American Sales Corpo
ration in Chicago. More than sixty
operators, jobbers and manufacturers
in the midwest area attended the
opening. Dutch lunch was served
throughout the day and an orchestra
was present which aided the guests
in “dusting off the old favorites.”
A circular bar of modernistic de
sign has been installed in the center
of the new tap room, and the walls
of the room are decorated with a
variety of paintings.
In commenting upon this innova
tion, Mr. Jones stated that the pur
pose of the new bar is to give oper
ators and others in the industry a
meeting place where they may feel
at liberty to gather at any time, and
that an “on the house” policy will
prevail always.
A number of alterations have been
made in the stock and shipping
rooms of the company which will
facilitate rapid handling of orders,
and the general office has been en
larged considerably.
Paces Races Now
on Ocean Liners
Mr. H. R. Maser, Pacific Coast
representative of Paces Races, Inc.,
spent a week at the Chicago factory
this month. Maser has been doing
some big things with the well-known
Paces Races and his latest achieve
ment was installations of the ma
chines in smoking and cocktail rooms
of Pacific Coast, Orient and Round
the World de luxe ocean liners.
According to Mr. E. W. Pace, presi
dent of Paces Races, Inc., this is the
first step in their program to equip
every ocean going boat.
S P E C I A L
Veteran Operator Is
Chicago Visitor
Another of the old timers was a
Chicago visitor this month, and as
usual, we discovered him in the pri
vate office of Walter Tratsch, having
a glass of beer and talking over old
times with the genial president of
A.B.T. Manufacturing Company. The
old timer in this case was S. T.
Harris of Newark, N. J., a veteran
with more than thirty years of oper
ating experience. Mr. Harris retired
about a year ago after being active
in a dozen or more states. He called
all the other old timers by name and
mentioned that he was sorry they
were not with him during his visits
to several manufacturers.
Cleveland Operator
Is Candidate
The trade will learn with interest
that John S. Kaminski, owner and
operator of The Automatic Merchan
dising C om pany
of Cleveland, is a
candidate for city
councilman. H is
name will appear
on the ballot on
October 1.
Mr. K a m in s k i
is better known
to readers as
Jo h n S. Stone,
Jo h n S. K a m in s k i
th e
P en
nam e
used for a num
ber of articles on vending machines
and their operation.
Because the trade sorely needs
more representatives in such posi
tions and because Mr. Kaminski is
determined to legalize coin machines
in Cleveland, he has asked that mem
bers of the industry assist him in his
campaign. He may be reached at
3735 East 59th Street, Cleveland,
Ohio.
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