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STANDARD SPECIALTY CO.
3021 38th Avenue
Oakland 2. Calif.
Phone ANdover 1-9037
101
FOR
OCTOBER
1947
Coast Enterprises Have New
Coffee and Scale Machines
LOS ANGELES-J. J. Greenfield, head
of Coast Enterprises, has returned from
Chicago where he attended the Bert Mills
Corp. distributors meeting. Greenfield re-
ported that factory engineers outlined the
operation and mechanical highlights of
the Mills Coffee Bar which has been al-
tered drastically from early models. "Many
new features for more efficient operation
have been incorporated into the new
model," Greenfield said.
Deliveries of the hot coffee machine in
Southern California (by Coast Enterprises)
and Northern California (by The Sambert
Co.) will begin between October 1 and 15,
Greenfield stated. "Our machine is the
lowest priced hot coffee vendor on the
market," he said, "and is years ahead in
design and engineering."
Greenfield, who also handles the Ameri-
can fortune-telling scale in California,
Oregon, and Washington, announces that
he has a good supply in stock for imme-
diate delivery. "Operators who have pur-
chased the American fortune-telling scale
have expressed amazement at the way col-
lections have increased over other makes."
Financial Paper Spotlights
Vending Machine Industry
CHICAGO-Expansion of the vending
machine trade made a front· page story in
the local financial paper here recently, the
Chicago Journal 0/ Commerce. The story
by a staff reporter was based on interviews
with officials of the National Automatic
Merchandising Assn. and scores another
victory for the public relations work of the
organization.
Dependence of the vending industry on
coins and on standard small merchandise,
like candy, soft drinks, cigarettes, gum and
peanuts, are emphasized in the report.
Some of the newer ideas and machines
mentioned in the story, to give it general
appeal, include the following:
Design for a machine which will vend
two dill pickles for a nickel has been com-
pleted by John Frantz, president of A. & F.
Engineering Co., Chicago. Frantz also says
his firm is experimenting with a machine
for selling small cans of baby foods for use
in large apartment buildings.
Mention is made of the new vendor by
One-Use Tooth Brush Corp., now well
known to readers of AUTOMATIC VENDINC.
The new hot coffee dispensers are listed
as developments that will attract the public.
Ice cream vendors are also included among
the newer expansions.
The article closes with a paragraph em-
phasizing the sphere of automatic ~ending
as compared with retail trade:
"Manufacturers and operators realize that
they cannot replace personal selling and it
is their avowed aim to supplement the sales-
man and to give round·the-clock service."
Plan to Install 7500 Stamp
Vendors in Post Offices
NEW YORK - Additional information
has been obtained from Joseph J. Lawler,
Third Asst. Postmaster General, concerning
the contract recently awarded by the Post
Office Dept. to the Commercial Controls
Corp., Rochester, N. Y., for the purchase of
stamp vending machine. (See AUTOMATIC
VENDINC, September, page 76.)
The order, amounting to $675,000, calls
for a total of 1500 machines, which would
price the individual stamp vendors at $450
each. Dispensers will be mounted on a
pedestal at a distance of approximately 52
inches from the floor, "no other dimensions
being prescribed." The vendors are to be
installed in large post offices "at points fre·
quented by the public."
Machines will be of the triplex type, with
Ihree individual dispensing units, each ca·
pable of handling one coil roll of 3000
stamps, but the vendor will also function if
loaded with smaller coils of 500 or 1000
stamps. All coils used will be of the stand-
ard types now available in post offices. The
machine can hold a total of 9000 stamps,
with a face value of $270.
Accepting nickels and dimes, the vendor
will dispense, at face value, five I-cent
stamps for a nickel; two 5·cent airmail
stamps for a dime; and five 3·cent stamps
for fifteen cents. No change-making me-
chanism is employed.
Delivery of the machines by the Commer-
cial Controls Corp. will not start until after
the first of the year. It would appear that
the machines will undergo extensive use on
location before the Post Office Dept. decides
whether to undertake any large·scale vendor
installations, as Lawler observed: "It can-
not be stated at this time whether additional
machines will be ordered in the future."
Operators of the 175,000 stamp vendors
now in commercial locations expect the
competitive effect of the 1500 government-
operated vendors to be negligible.
Alkuno Plans New Vendors
NEW YORK-Alkuno & Co., Inc., manu-
facturers of lotion machines, cigar, bar
candy, hot nut and bulk candy vendors, is
working around the clock readying new
Life Saver and Charms machines for the
NAMA show in December.
"They are five-cent vendors with a ca-
pacity of 200 units," said Kuno E. Hamann,
president of the firm.