Coin Slot

Issue: 1978 December 047

Coin Slot Magazine - #047 - 1978 - December [International Arcade Museum]
Serial No. Clearing Hoyse
Caille Bell Machine Serials
By Dick Bueschel
If there'sone quick thing that can be said about our list of Caille
Bros, slot machine serials, it's that it needs help. But so did Caille
Bros, as the known serials show. Mills Bell machine serials reached
almost half-a-million by the end of 1941; Watling serials came in
just under 100,000 by.the time they ended, and Jennings was
second. But Caille Bros, ran last among the major Bell machine
producers, even running behind Pace, who started making slots a
quarter of a century after Caille Bros, in 1927.
The Caille Bros, story is a sad story. It's obvious that they were
right up front with their floor machines made before World War I-
the surviving machine popularion proves that. Equally, the survi
ving machine population is a fairly good indicator of what was or
wasn't well liked in its day, a track of the Caille serials makes the
same point.
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Caille Superior Jackpot
Caille Silent Sphinx
You can see it happening right at the beginning of the Bell
machines. After WWI Mills was at 50,000 and Watling was claim
ing 30,000, yet Caille apparently didn't hit the 10,000 mark in
Bells until around 1922.
Even the highly popular Caille Bros.
SUPERIOR-that seems to have survived in such great numbers-
didn't bring the production figures anywhere near Mills or Jennings
although the model did double the Caille serials.
The SUPERIOR, introduced in 1926, was a landmark machine.
It replaced the center-pull VICTORY and its OPERATOR BELL
model and modernized Caille appearance at the same time. Sue-
cessful as it was, a study of contemporary serials of all manufactur
ers shows that Caille was only selling one Bell for every four Jen
nings machines, and one for every twelve Mills machines. The
survival rate seems to be about the same.
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production Bell machine to be equipped with a jackpot, coming
out on location were shipped to Caille jobbers and dealers, and
new production proceeded on the jackpot models from scratch.
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cabinet front, a typical artful Caille casting creation that had an
elaborate deepPscroll design, replacing the robed woman.
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