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quantity, waiting for furth er price decl in es
on sugar. The soft drink trade was prob·
ably hit harder by unfavorable legislation
recently than any other merchandise trade,
due to a number of tax proposals, also ex·
tension of the P ennsylvania soft drink tax
for two years.
Trade gossip has it that sales of soft
drinks have been off for some months. One
of the first reports for the new year- Dr.
Pepper-says most of its bottlers either had
increases or held their own during the first
two months of the year. The big soft drink
season , of course, is now just ahead. Walter
Mack (Pepsi-Cola) is reported to be visit-
ing state conventions of bottlers to urge a
national advertising campaign to boost use
of carbonated drinks, and to say that single-
flavor vendors are unfavorable to the in-
dustry. Ci trus Products Co. (Kist) recently
made a survey on use of vendors to sell
soft drinks. A leader in soft drink trade
field (name withheld) was recently quoted
in New York as saying the soft drink vend-
ing field is crowded and marked by un-
profitable competition. He said too many
operators have been led to enter the field
without studying th e full potential market.
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IDEAL WEIGHING MACHINE CO.
1012 WEST 43RD ST.
NEW YORK - Practi cal Produ cts Co.,
Minneapolis, Minn., and the Gross-Given
Mfg. Co., St. Paul, have merge d th eir fa -
cilities for the manufacture of Refresh-O-
Mat, the new low-priced cup dispenser, and
the Smokeshop, th e 612-pack all-electric
cigarette machin e, so that a greater degree
of effi ciency in production can be main -
tain ed, segregating the coin machine prod-
ucts from th e products which they presently
manufa cture.
The new com pany, handling the present
two machin es and other coin machine mer-
chandisin g products to be announced short-
ly, will be known as the Automatic Prod-
ucts Co. of 2632 Nicollet Ave. , Minnea polis.
Sales for both products to distributors will
be handl ed by the Automatic Products
Sales Co., 250 W. 57th St., N. Y. C., under
the direc tion of Samuel Kresberg, execu-
tive vice president, and Maury Auerbach,
director of sales. Auerbach was formerly
with National Vendors and Lehigh Foun-
dries.
Oak's New Plant Producing
450 " Acorn" Vendors Daily
CULVER CITY, Calif.-With complete
fa cilities for the manufacture of th e Acorn
vendor now under on e roof, Oak Mfg. Co.
has step ped up production in its new
5,000 foot plant to 450 per day. In addition
to th e main plant, a 5,000 foot warehouse is
being constru cted at the same location.
Th e firm announces th e appointment of
Harry R. Evans, wid ely known vending
man , as factory representative. Evans will
appoint new distributors in th e territories
open and coordinate the activities of dis-
tributors already in th e fold. At present he
is in the South and will subsequently cover
the rest of th e country.
Company officials state that the Acorn is
not only becomin g increasingly popular in
the United States, but in foreign countries
as well .. Growing shipments have gone for-
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$ 13.95 ea.
$13.45 in lots of 100
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Operators Vending Machine Supply' (0.
Exclusive Souther n Cali f ornia D istributor f or
Oak Mfg. Co.'s ACORN VENDOR
Phone: Richmond 5264
1023 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, Calif.
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ward to Cuba , Puerto Rico, P anama, Nica-
ragua, and Guam. Coin mechanism on the
Acorn is adjustable to take any foreign
coins.
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The factory reveals that the Acorn is now
available with die-cast cabin ets, having th e
same cap.acity as globes, for territories
desiring them.
Operators Vending Machine Supply Co.,
exclusive Southern California distributor
for the Acorn, is accepting Suns, Stars,
and Opera tors Vending's Ace machines on
trade-in for the Acorn and removing th e
obsolete machin es from the market.
Bonanza Has Financing Plan
For California Operators
LOS ANGELES - Bonanza, In c., manu-
facturers of th e Nllgget automatic hot pop-
corn vendor and th e Swi/t y-Shine automatic
shoe shin e machine, announce a tim e pay-
ment plan for California op erators permit-
ting th e purchase of both machines at one-
third down and the bal ance in monthly
payments.
Said C. F . Wurdig, Bonanza executive :
"First to reduce post-war machine pri ces,
Bonanza once ~ga in gives the operator an
opportunity to increase ea rnings. By taking
advantage of this time payment plan, Cali-
fo rnia operators can expand th eir routes
and· reap the benefits of volume sale with-
out drainin g off th eir working ca pital."
Bonanza scooped the fi eld with its low-
priced popcorn and shoe shin e machines at
the CMI Show, and sin ce th en has steadily
expanded to meet growing demand for its
vendors .
"Our purpose in entering th e manufactur-
ing field was not ·just to turn out low-priced
machines," Elwood Lorman said. "Anybody
can make low-priced ma chines. Our object
was to make low-pri ced machines whi ch
would be so trouble-free and easy to service
that operators would make a nice profit
without those twin bugaboos- high cost of
eq uipm ent a nd high cost of servicing -
drivin g them to tb e wall."
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