Automatic Age

March, 1940
AUTOMATIC AGE
90
M ills Mens Interview Dorsey
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Heavy session on “ swing" between M ills men and Tommy Dorsey, the sentimental gentlsman
of swing. Left to right: Larry Burnham, M ills phono engineer; Swing Leader Tommy Dorsey;
Jim Mangan, M ills Advertising M anager; Hans Schweigert and David Cole, phono experts.
Illinois Lock Company Reports
Record Year In 1939
Skee Jum p is w elcom e in A L L locations.
It is a fa s c in a tin g and highly popular
s k ill gam e. T h e b e a u tifu l deluxe console
c a b in e t is only 48 inches in len g th .
Skee Jum p w ill earn “ lo n g -life ” profits!
COU N TER S K IL f. G A M E
5 B A L L S lc
T h e FA STEST
m oney m aking
counter gam e
ever o rig in a t­
ed. Equipped
with
clever
score “ a d d e r-
u p p e r ” th a t
w o rk s
lik e
m agic.
G u a ra n te e d
m e c h a n ic a lly
pe rfe c t.
O perators and
jobbers h a v e
flo o d e d
us
w ith orders.
ONLY
T A K E O U R T IP !
$19.50
ORDER N O W !
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21 Steuben St.
Brooklyn, N .Y.
Genial W illiam Lias went home to
Wheeling, West V irginia, from the
Chicago Show $400 richer, the w in­
ner of the grand prize in the contest
conducted by The Illinois Lock Com­
pany. Lias picked the w inning key
that opened the Illinois Duo Lock
on the contest machine in the See­
burg exhibit, and thus won the $400
Seeburg Symphanola.
More than 2,500 operators par­
ticipated in the contest, making it
one of the highlights of the show.
Each operator that visited the Illi­
nois Lock exhibit was given an op­
portunity to select a key. I f it
opened the lock on the Seeburg Sym­
phanola, the machine was his, the
g ift of The Illinois Lock Company.
Illinois
Lock
president,
Gray,
pointed out that the contest, which
aroused unusual interest, was the
company’s way of expressing ap­
preciation to operators for the very
successful year Illinois Lock Com­
pany has had. Always a leader in
the field, the company closed 1939
with sales at an all-time peak. The
registered key plan, which the com­
pany sponsored several years ago,
is reported to be responsible for
much of the gains the company made
in recent years. Under this plan, an
unduplicated key is registered in the
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name of an operator. The pattern is
kept with his signature in the vaults
of The Illinois Lock Company. Only
that one operator can get duplicates
of this key pattern. As the operatoi
replaces locks on his machines, the
company supplies them so that his
key— and no other— will open them.
His one key will open all the ma­
chines on his route. Thus the opera­
tor is relieved of having to c a n y
dozens of keys. In recent weeks, the
company has supplemented its plan
by allowing a trade-in value to opera­
tors on their old locks that they wish
replaced with new Registered Keys
and Locks.
Meters Earn $2,563
In Two W eeks
Grand Rapids, Mich.— Receipt from
the parking meters for a period o
two weeks amounted to $2,563.55, a
new high record, according to City
Manager C. Sophus Johnson. Thirteen
slugs were found in the collection.
779,649 Meter Nickels
In Two Years
New Castle, Pa.— City Solicitor
Sid Lockley recently reported that m
two years a total of 779,649 nickels
were inserted into parking meters in
the city.
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