Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

A NEW SERVICE
Operators
Jobbers
FOR
AT THE CHICAGO SHOW
Distributors
Manufacturers
To fill a definite need, we present at the 1942 Exhibition & Convention of the Coin Machine
Industry- January 12-15 at Hotel Sherman, the First Annual
National Slug Hej.e ctors School
Plan now to send your service men or mechanics {or come yoursel£)-learn more about the
latest models and types of- slug rejectors. The School will present all essential facts and de-
tails, including methods of operation, maintenance and adjustment. Attendance at the classes,
while in Chicago, will save you and your company expense and time during the months to
come. The Schoo l is open to all interested without cost or obligation.
For furth e r information, visit Booth 1 60 , Room 609, or write
COIH
MACHIHE
REVIEW
NATIONAL SLUG REJECTORS, Inc.
5100 San Francisco Avenue
St. Louis, Mo.
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FOR
DECEMBER
'1941
French Industry
Under Wraps
MARSEILLES, France-Still in effect is
a law, adopted in July, 1937, pro hibiting
the operation of all machines from which
any profit could be obtained. In conse·
quence, according to the report of Rene
Godin, editor of La Revue de I'Automa·
tique, trade paper formerly published in
Paris, the French coin machine industry is
actually in a very low state.
War's outbreak meant the calling up of
all men from 20 to 50. Operators thus
were compell ed either to leave their mach-
ines where they were or to put them in
storage. A very few machines continued to
be placed on location during the war.
With the suspension of hostilities a great
many machines went back in to circulation.
Cafes contain football games, pin tables
a nd some phonographs, but all these mach-
ines are obsolete, from the viewpoint of
American manufacture, since nothing has
been imported since the war began. All
import firms have been closed by their in-
ability to get merchandise; many of these
were managed by J ews who have been ex-
pe ll ed from France's commercial life.
Although phonographs are popular, their
price, 35,000 francs each, corresponds to 70
weeks' work of a factory workman , and
only well-to-do operators can afford them.
Moreover, they must be placed in the very
best locations.
Demand for othe r equipment is constant·
Iy increasing, but fi rms ab le to meet the
demand are scarce. Employers who were
not imprisone .... -and many are still in
prison-remained for fh e most part in the
free zone where they fled at the outbreak
of the war.
Godin's publication acted as an inter-
mediary, before the war, bringing buyers
and sellers together, and Godin himself
was a pivot of the coin machine industry
in France. Although he has not yet been
authorized to resume publication, he has
kept in close touch with his former sub-
scribers and friends who still look to him
for information, who still hope for equip.
ment even though none can be imported
and none can be manufactured.
"I have the impression," Godin writes.
" that, once the war is ove'r, there will be
a fair opportunity here for American firms
which th ey should not neglect, the chief
reason bein/! not only the great demand
but th e r~~1 impossibility of manufacturin/!
ourselves.
Godin e X(Jres ~"d a hope that in the near
future it will be possible to resume trade
relations with all his friends in the United
States ana l i ' ;l~ it will also be possible for
him to allen'l, as in the past, the "grand
and magnihcent exhibitions" held in the
United Staff"~,
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