American Readies Vendor
DETROIT-Joseph Grum, president of
American Vending Corp., announces the
establishment of a plant at Kansas City,
Kansas. Headquarters for operations will
remain in Detroit with tlie Kansas City
plant being used for production operations
only.
American Vending is a new firm formed
to serve as the parent organization of the
American Designing & Engineering Co. of
Detroit. Last named organization will func-
tion as the engineering department of
American Vending.
The firm is planning to produce a two·
column vendor for candy, packaged gum,
peanuts, cookies, or other packaged prod·
ucts of a similar size and price. According
to Grum, a special feature of the new
machine is the construction of the coin
chutes and delivery mechanism, each of
which operates independently of any me·
chanical disturbance in the other.
R. A. Dahlstrom, designer of coin· con·
trolled devices, is the sales manager for the
firm. National sales will be handled by
Sam Kogen of the Illinois Mechanical
Sales Co.
Surf Queens Arriv'e -
LOS ANGELES-Deliveries are now
coming through on Bally's first post·war
novelty game, Surf Queens, according to
Paul A. Laymon, Bally distributor for
Southern California.
"Bally's expanded plant facilities and
streamlined assembly methods permit the
production of three games, together with
the Undersea Raider target game," said
Laymon. "Surf Queens combines tried and
tested novelty features with several new
high·score ideas that will bring the slowest
novelty spot back to life in a hurry. The
game is especially strong on the ·come·
close-try-again' appeal that insures plenty
of repeat play. Back-glass, play-field and
cabinet rank among the most colorful
and attractive ever produced by Bally."
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$60 each, F.O.B.
our factory, any
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Industry to Profit By
New Air Service
SAN FRANCISCO-Speculation is rife
in this city about the opportunities opened
up for coin machine men by the new 9%-
hour daily Clipper service from San Fran-
cisco and Los Angeles recently inaugu.
rated by Pan American World Airways.
The consensus seems to be that distribu-
tors and operators will be able to use the
service to marked advantage.
Operators in Hawaii will be able to
visit the Mainland, make purchases and
return to the Islands in about three days.
This is in contrast to a trip of about five
days each way by steamship. The Main-
land is brought closer to the Hawaiian
operator by air travel, and it will no longer
be the operator's problem to wait many
days for the arrival of important machine
replacements to put equipment back to
work.
Operators will be able to wire for parts
one day and receive them by air express
the next. Music operators will be able to
get hit records days sooner than if records
were shipped by steamship and will thus
proportionately increase their earnings on
numbers much in demand.
Equal advantages are offered the dis-
tributor. Under the low rates, samples of
new models can be flown to the Islands at
• a cost of only a few dollars more than the
cost of shipping by steamship. The rate
per pound is somewhat higher by air but
this is offset to some extent by the fact that
air cargo can be packed in heavy cardboard
rather than the heavy wooden crates re-
quired for steamship freight.
The new Clippers will make the trip in
almost half the flight time often required
for the flying-boat time. Fares have been
cut from $278 to $195 one way, and the
-
round trip is down to $350.
By the end of this year Pan American
expects to add larger and faster planes,
slash its fares still further, and reduce the
flying schedule to 8~ hours from the West
Coast to Honolulu. The air line then will
be equipped to carry 116,800 passengers a
year-exceeding by more than 50,000 pas-
sengers the total volume of traffic between
the Islands and the Mainland by both air
transport and surface shipping before the
outbreak of war.
These thousands of visitors t. the Islands
all will be potential patrons of coin-oper-
ated machines. Increased travel will make
for profitable operating and will provide
opportunities for additional operaitlrs to
supply and service machines for the trav-
elers.
There seems to be little doubt but that
with inauguration of this air service the
postwar development of travel and com·
merce between Hawaii and the Pacific
Coast will be greatly hastened. This devel-
opment should prove in a very short time
a boon to operators and distributors of all
types of coin-operated machines.
OPERATORS!
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