Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)
Issue: 1946 August - Page 87
BED HOT NEWS
LAST MINUTE REPORTS - PREDICTIONS -
FORECASTS and GOOD OLD FASHIONED
RUMORS COMPRISE THIS NEW REPORTING
SERVICE OF "THE REVIEW." THIS PAGE IS
WRITTEN AS THE FINAL FORMS GO TO
PRESS ON THE 20th.
NEW EQUIPMENT DELIVERIES: They're still
slow and it looks like they will continue
so for the next few months at least.
Labor is still a critical item but the
main complaint is the lack of lumber,
motors, glass, etc. Lumber is slated to
be acute throughqut 1946. Same holds for
copper, lead and only plastics seem to
have passed the acute stage and will be
ready for manufacturers in reasonable
amounts this fall. Prices on new equip-
ment will be higher. Elimination of OPA
ceilings has nothing to do with the propo-
sition. Increased costs of material,
labor, and freight, will add up to the
new prices.
PHONOGRAPHS: Aireon continues to deliver
in fair quantities and first production
shortcomings are being ironed out by
the distributQrs around the country. Lots
of squawks here, and not good for the
Industry, either. Add to this the fire
leveled at the Challenge plant, Batavia
Metal Products Co., in Batavia, Ill.
This is the Garrson combine, now in the
throes of a Congressional investigation.
Little is known at the plant of the ac-
tivities of the big-wigs but the Coin
Machine Industry doesn't need this kind
of publicity, especially from a new-comer.
Wait until it is revealed that the firm
is now in the newspaper-classed "Slot
Machine Business." The fireworks will
start immediately. At the factory they
say the phono and bevera~e machine are
going ahead on schedule. Packard is bring-
ing out its Hide-a-way unit first and
the Pla-Mor phonograph will follow in
September. AM.! is starting deliveries
after an early show to keep in pace with
the rest. S'eeburg continues in the groove
and is winning plaudits for its program
of conducting service schools to help
operators learn more about the equipment
they operate. Wurlitzer has followed a
like pattern, but here i's a juicy forecast
fresh from our informant. There is a
likelihood that Wurlitzer's plans for
1947 will not include any NEW operators.
Promotion will be directed toward sell ng
the instruments now on location to the
general public as purveyors of the best
in popular music. Interesting, if true,
but the idea will fall flat after 3 months
of operation.~~ increases have
not been warmly received by operators.
Most of them think them unjustified after
the initial high figure.
GAMES: Along they come in small dribbles.
Ed Johnson is shipping a very few each
week. Last month we tipped you off to a
new West Coast Manufacturer about to
deliver a new Skee Ball Machine. The first
10'0 are now coming off the production
line and ALL have been sold. The plant,
a pre-war one and very well equipped,
expects to build at least a thousand and
boy - are they streamlined? Beauties -
yeah man! In Chicago the production is
still slow. For example, samples of
Bally' s Draw Bell have been in distributor
showrooms forseveral weeks but no
quantity shipments have left the factory.
Same holds true at the other manufactur-
ing emporiums in the windy city.
VENDING: Cigarette vendors are slow in
coming through. All of the distributors
have over-sold their 1946 quotas. Rowe,
Du Grenier and U-Needa are making limited
deliveries. Eastern Electric and National
are slated for early fall deliveries.
Lehigh Foundries is now in production
d
ONLY TWO distributors, so far, have been
appointed for the nation. Idea is to
give the new machine a thorough test and
additional appointments will likely be
made at the Coin Machine Show in February.
The two distributors will have 500
vendors each to distribute between now
and the first of the year.
MERCHANDISE VENDORS: Literally hundreds
of them are in preparation but shortages
of one kind or another are holding back
deliveries. One plant in Illinois has
thousands of peanut vending machines
made up and ready for shipment when the
necessary glass bowls are obtainable.
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
87
FOlt
AUGUST
1946
WR.BURTT
THE
COIN
TUBE
MAM
-•-
Critical
Types
Offered
Consumer
Market at
OPA Retail
List Prices.
Radio Tubes
for all
malces
of
Coln
Operated
Machines
Write for
Twlc;e
Monthly
Inventory
Release
Sheet.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Effective with the issue dated October, 1946 which closes in
Los Angeles on September 12th, THE REVIEW will discontinue the
saddle stitch type of binding used during the period of
ar and
revert to the side stitch used prior to Pearl Harbor.
Tliis means advertisers using bleed pages and inserts must allow
a one-fourth inch space in the gutter for binding.
W. R. BURTT
442 N. SENECA
WICHITA 12, KANSAS
https://elibrary.arcade-museum.com
LAST MINUTE REPORTS - PREDICTIONS -
FORECASTS and GOOD OLD FASHIONED
RUMORS COMPRISE THIS NEW REPORTING
SERVICE OF "THE REVIEW." THIS PAGE IS
WRITTEN AS THE FINAL FORMS GO TO
PRESS ON THE 20th.
NEW EQUIPMENT DELIVERIES: They're still
slow and it looks like they will continue
so for the next few months at least.
Labor is still a critical item but the
main complaint is the lack of lumber,
motors, glass, etc. Lumber is slated to
be acute throughqut 1946. Same holds for
copper, lead and only plastics seem to
have passed the acute stage and will be
ready for manufacturers in reasonable
amounts this fall. Prices on new equip-
ment will be higher. Elimination of OPA
ceilings has nothing to do with the propo-
sition. Increased costs of material,
labor, and freight, will add up to the
new prices.
PHONOGRAPHS: Aireon continues to deliver
in fair quantities and first production
shortcomings are being ironed out by
the distributQrs around the country. Lots
of squawks here, and not good for the
Industry, either. Add to this the fire
leveled at the Challenge plant, Batavia
Metal Products Co., in Batavia, Ill.
This is the Garrson combine, now in the
throes of a Congressional investigation.
Little is known at the plant of the ac-
tivities of the big-wigs but the Coin
Machine Industry doesn't need this kind
of publicity, especially from a new-comer.
Wait until it is revealed that the firm
is now in the newspaper-classed "Slot
Machine Business." The fireworks will
start immediately. At the factory they
say the phono and bevera~e machine are
going ahead on schedule. Packard is bring-
ing out its Hide-a-way unit first and
the Pla-Mor phonograph will follow in
September. AM.! is starting deliveries
after an early show to keep in pace with
the rest. S'eeburg continues in the groove
and is winning plaudits for its program
of conducting service schools to help
operators learn more about the equipment
they operate. Wurlitzer has followed a
like pattern, but here i's a juicy forecast
fresh from our informant. There is a
likelihood that Wurlitzer's plans for
1947 will not include any NEW operators.
Promotion will be directed toward sell ng
the instruments now on location to the
general public as purveyors of the best
in popular music. Interesting, if true,
but the idea will fall flat after 3 months
of operation.~~ increases have
not been warmly received by operators.
Most of them think them unjustified after
the initial high figure.
GAMES: Along they come in small dribbles.
Ed Johnson is shipping a very few each
week. Last month we tipped you off to a
new West Coast Manufacturer about to
deliver a new Skee Ball Machine. The first
10'0 are now coming off the production
line and ALL have been sold. The plant,
a pre-war one and very well equipped,
expects to build at least a thousand and
boy - are they streamlined? Beauties -
yeah man! In Chicago the production is
still slow. For example, samples of
Bally' s Draw Bell have been in distributor
showrooms forseveral weeks but no
quantity shipments have left the factory.
Same holds true at the other manufactur-
ing emporiums in the windy city.
VENDING: Cigarette vendors are slow in
coming through. All of the distributors
have over-sold their 1946 quotas. Rowe,
Du Grenier and U-Needa are making limited
deliveries. Eastern Electric and National
are slated for early fall deliveries.
Lehigh Foundries is now in production
d
ONLY TWO distributors, so far, have been
appointed for the nation. Idea is to
give the new machine a thorough test and
additional appointments will likely be
made at the Coin Machine Show in February.
The two distributors will have 500
vendors each to distribute between now
and the first of the year.
MERCHANDISE VENDORS: Literally hundreds
of them are in preparation but shortages
of one kind or another are holding back
deliveries. One plant in Illinois has
thousands of peanut vending machines
made up and ready for shipment when the
necessary glass bowls are obtainable.
COIN
MACHINE
REVIEW
87
FOlt
AUGUST
1946
WR.BURTT
THE
COIN
TUBE
MAM
-•-
Critical
Types
Offered
Consumer
Market at
OPA Retail
List Prices.
Radio Tubes
for all
malces
of
Coln
Operated
Machines
Write for
Twlc;e
Monthly
Inventory
Release
Sheet.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
Effective with the issue dated October, 1946 which closes in
Los Angeles on September 12th, THE REVIEW will discontinue the
saddle stitch type of binding used during the period of
ar and
revert to the side stitch used prior to Pearl Harbor.
Tliis means advertisers using bleed pages and inserts must allow
a one-fourth inch space in the gutter for binding.
W. R. BURTT
442 N. SENECA
WICHITA 12, KANSAS
https://elibrary.arcade-museum.com
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