Mechanical Memories Magazine

Issue: 2013-November - Issue 80

This then results in my Dropacopper going empty on numerous occasions. To date, no
one who has played on my machine has finished up on the losing side; now that just
did not happen back in the 1960s! Anyway, it's something a bit different so I've
decided to keep it after all. I've posted a video on Youtube - search Wonders
Dropacopper 1960s slot machine and enjoy my machine in a very generous mode.
Finally, make sure you all keep up your subscriptions to Mechanical Memories
Magazine, because next month I shall be revealing to you all about a very rare six-foot
high electro-mechanical machine from the 1960s that I have just acquired. Be there or
be square!
Robert Rowland
The back of the playfield, showing the four micro switches that activate the payout
solenoid (which pays three pennies). A penny entering the 12 column will cascade past
all four switches, thus paying twelve pennies. Simple!
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The Little Stockbroker
By Stuart Searle
Although not the most exciting amusement machine to play, they certainly cannot be
knocked for their Art Deco styling. The Little Stockbroker was patented in 1927 by
George Bradshaw and made/distributed by Coin-Operated Machines Ltd, Charring
Cross, London.
This machine has a pre-determined payout; a strange idea, and in Bradshaw's
own words, "I avoid all elements of chance whatsoever by causing every result to be
pre-determined, but I still retain the necessary attraction produced by one person
pitting himself against another as in such games as bridge, whist and the like." One
wonders what arguments ensued when by reading the wheel the machine would only
payout by inserting the next penny.
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