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The Automatic Age
T H E N A T IO N A L M A G A ZIN E OF T H E V E N D IN G M ACH IN E
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Covering Automatic Machines and Coin-Controlled Devices o f
Every Description
Published Monthly by TH E
L IG H T N E R
O. C. L IG H TN E R , President
P U B LISH IN G
CORP.
W A L T E R HURD, Managing Editor
Official Organ: National Vending Maohine Manufacturers’ A ssociation
Official Organ: Coin Machine Operators’ Ass'n of America
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Detroit Vending Machine Operators’ Association
New York Aroade Owners' Association
Southwestern Vending Machine Oiieratorn’ Association
Cleveland Vending Machine Operators’ Association
Greater New York Coin Machine Operators' Association
New England Coin Machine Operators' Association
Executive Office, 2810 S . Michigan, Chicago, 111.
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We A re Open to Conviction About Awards
A manufacturer writes us remarking that if we are going to give
a cup this year for the best machine in the show, he is surely going
to get it. No doubt several other manufacturers feel the same way!
We are going to give a cup this year for the best machine at the
show and one for the best and cleanest operator in the country.
However, those may be the last cups we give. Our object in start­
ing this custom several years ago was to encourage the manufac­
turers to do their best and to bestow on them a signal of recognition
for their efforts. Naturally, all manufacturers feel that their ma­
chine is the best, and admittedly a number would have legitimate
grounds for such a claim. The decision has been left to a vote of
the operators, cognizance taken only of ballots that were signed in
the handwriting of known operators, and each year the cup went
to the machine which got the overwhelming number of votes. At no
time was the vote even close. No doubt the machines receiving
the award were very clever ideas.
There has been disappointment registered, however, on the part
of other manufacturers, the most meritorious of which was the fact
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