How It Looks
There's a healthy number of new
machines in the Industry as a new
year begins. The annual NAMA con·
vention served to bring out a number
of new machines in the automa tic
vending field in time for e3l· ly 1950
trade.
In amusement ganIes, it's shuffle·
bowling type of games in what seem s
to be a good boom. The Novembe r
REVIEW called attention to this
beginning tide.
A national music convention in
March will spotlight mllsic develop·
nlents and progress.
J . H. KEENEY & CO., 2600 W. 50th
St. , Chi cago 32, ilL-Ga me in th e shuffl e-
bowling class ca ll ed Pin B oy; cab in et 8
by 2 feet; scoreboard reg isters po ints, also
bowling sco res as strikes, spa res, etc. ;
backglass offers sem blance of 10 bowling
pins se t in stand ard triang le; li ghts go out
to simulate pins being knocked down; pu ck
return is au tomati c.
Availability: Repo rted in production.
LYMO INDUSTRIES, Inc., 2640 W.
Belmont Ave., Chi cago 18, ilL- Du al model
of the Lion cup drink vendor, shown at
AMA co nventi on.
ROWE MANUFACTURING CO.,
Inc., 31 East 17th St., New York 3, . Y.
- Introdu ced ne w bottle vendor at nation al
bottlers' conven tion, Detroi t ; two Aavors
an d compl etely a utom ati c; fea tures mecha-
nism whi ch permits both sid es of vendor
to be used at same tim e; cab in et approx.
72 in ches hi gh, 41 in ches wide, 32 in ches
deep, weighs 630 pounds.
RUDD·MELIKIAN, Inc., 1947
.
Howard St., Philadelphia, Pa. - ew model
coffee vendor called M odel CR-3 of th e
Kwik-Kafe lin e; compact unit only 22
inches wide, holds 450 cups; sanitation
features have been stressed in new ma-
chine, valves improved, new cup slid e,
simplified electri cal system, more compac t
con denser, etc.
ROCK · OLA
MANUFACTURING
CORP., 800 N. Kedzi e Ave., Chi cago, IlL-
New game of the shuffle-bowling type
call ed S huffle-Lane; raised playfield to
permit tru e shuffleboard technique; real
gutters to s imulate bowlin g alley con di-
tion s; slide-o ut mechanism drawer to fa c il -
itate repairs; made in two sizes, a n 8-foot
and a deluxe 9y:!-foot model.
Availability: Reported in production.
SUP ERVEND CORP., 2506 Cedar
Sp rings Ave., Dallas, Texas.-New unit
which makes a four-A avo r vendor of its
well-known three-Aavor machine; hot unit
ha been added so that hot coffee or hot
chocolate may be dispensed; unit ca n easil y
be installed in Supervend models already
in the fi eld ; two- gallon stainl ess steel drum
for syrup concentrate whi ch goes in ven-
dors refrigerated compartm ent; hot water
hea ting unit is controlled by th ermostat.
ST ONER CORP., Aurora, ilL- Three
models of gu m ve ndor, two of th e models
having four col umn s, and one with six
columns; vend ors have capacity of a pproxi-
mately 300 sti cks or tabs.
TRAI NING DEVICES, Inc., 1469
Electric Ave., Lin co ln P a rk 25, Mich.-
Shuffleboard type ga me call ed S huffle-Mile,
fea turing rea l co in control so there is "no
play without pay"; length 10 feet, permits
two or four players at 10 ce nts for 10
minutes; sco res kept on score board
a ttached to rail.
VENDMASTE R CORP., LillIe Rock,
Ark-Shown at national bottl ers' con ven-
tion in Detroit ; a two-Aavor bottle vendor
call ed Vendmaster, holdin g 132 bottles
ready to vend and 44 in coolin g compart-
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1025 North Highland Avenue
Hollywood 38, California
GRanite 4148
ment: has co in changer; ca binet is 69
in ches hi gh, 40 inches wid e and 24 inches
deep.
VICTOR VENDING CORP., 5701-13
W. Grand Ave., Chi cago 39, ilL- Tripl e-
unit T opper model, similar to th e Double-
Unit model described in thi column for
ovember; offe rs a dvantages in space
when vendors a re placed in ba tteri es.
Availability: Reported in production.
Rush Bowling Game by Air
SA FRAN CISCO-Ema rcy Distributing
Co. attain ed so me fam e in th e business
world wh en Slick Airways delivered some
new bowling ga mes to the firm , th e first
of th e mak e delive red to th e West Coast.
Th e games were the Bowl-O bowling ga me
made by Sutphen Products Cor p., New
York , and Emarcy is distri butor for th e
north ern Californi a territory. M. H. Rosen-
berg, president of Emarcy, had placed the
order whil e on a trip to New York. Th e
air ex press del ivery wa s made within 24
hours after th e pickup in New York.
Novel Liquor Dispenser
PHILADELPHIA-A mong th e unu sual
new devices hown during the NAMA con-
vention in Atlantic City, Nov. 27-30, was
a push-button bartender made by Rudd -
Melikian, Inc., he re a nd known in th e auto-
mati c vendor trad e as th e mak ers of Kwi k-
Kale hot coffee vendors.
Ll oyd Rudd and Cy Meliki an, officials of
th e firm , sa id the new device was developed
from th eir co ffee machin e a nd was built a
a co nveni ence in se rvin g drinks at showings
in hotel suite . Th en th ey were urged to put
it on th e market. It ma kes its own soda and
has a ca pa city for 500 cups of ginger ale;
it will hold a gallon and a half of liquor
in whatever form desired. Push buttons
con trol th e di spe nsin g and th e mod el had
labels for Rye, Scotch, Ginger Ale, Soda.
Custom er mi xes th e drink him self by push-
ing th e proper button.
Th e machin e ca n be made to operate
with co ins, and to gi ve chan ge, th e manu-
fac turers ga id.
Toe Caldron to Head
Sales lor AMI Phonos
CHICAGO- John W. Haddock, pres ide nt
of AMI, In c., announced th e appo intm en t
of Joe Caldron as assistant sa les manager in
charge of th e Chicago office of th e firm.
Haddock hold s the po t of sales manager.
Caldron wa s form e rly ass istant to Lyndon
C. (Lindy) Force, manager of general
sales for AMI, Force havjng di ed suddenly
on Nov. 6 of a ce rebral hemorrhage. F orce
had had a long and pop ular ca reer in th e
Industry.
Caldron is a native of Chi cago and ente red
th e coin ma chin e trade as credit manager
for th e Co in Machine Acceptance Co rp. ,
after a ca reer in the banking fi eld. He
joined an AMI distributing firm in New
Orlea ns in 1945, then became di stri ct
manager for AMI in ea rly 1946 ; 15 month s
later he was made a sistant to Force.
Wurlitzerlmproves Position
CHI CAGO- Financial report of Rud olph
Wurlitze r Co. for the first six months
of its fi scal year-April to September-
shows that its outstanding bank loans had
been reduced in th e period by about
$2,650,000, leav ing a present total of a bout
$5,000,000. Consolidated inventories of th e
firm had also bee n reduced consid e rably
in the period, standing at about $5,000,000
on ept. 30.
Th e firm re ported a loss of $250,036 for
the 6-month pe riod, but considered tha t
the big reductions in bank loans a nd in-
ventories wa s actually a great gain in th e
pe riod.
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