Coin Slot
Issue: 1978 October 045 - Page 37
Coin Slot Magazine - #045 - 1978 - October [International Arcade Museum]
So what are we looking for based on the picture?
It would
appear that we are looking for a 5-way White Manufacturing Com
pany floor machine made around 1904.
Some background is in
order here.
There are quite a number of White floor machines around; ex
amples known are OWL, UNO, JUDGE, late models of the CHI
CAGO RIDGE, OOM-PALL, AMERICAN BEAUTY and others.
We already know that White machines practically duplicate Berger
machines, only there's more of them and they're later.
where knowledge comes in.
That's
The Chicago-based Paul E. Berger
Manufacturing Company of the 1890s sold out to the White Man
ufacturing Company in 1902, with White continuing to produce
the Berger machines while adding a lot of their own. Unmistakable
Berger-White characteristics are large coin heads and elaborate
curved cast handles.
The biggest clue of all to the Berger-White
origin of the machine in the picture is the center position coin
head, a location pioneered on the Berger electric machines and
carried forward by White on a number of machines in its all me
chanical line.
Not only that, the side-crank coin head is a Berger
patent, used by White.
Now comes the dating; Berger never made a machine that looked
like this one, so the model is pure White. In 1902 and 1903 White
was up to its ears getting the original Berger machines into pro
duction so it wasn't until late 1903 or 1904 that White really got
rolling on its own line.
The machine in the picture is so clever
and original we must assume it wasn't the first of the new White
machines, therefore, judging production to be 1904 or even later.
As for the machine itself; it's a marvel. The wheel is completely
different than anything else in the floor machine line, although
the coin head and play handle are straight out of the White OWL
.com It's the bottom of
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:
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om turn-on.
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the cabinet that's the
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example ht that
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and White AMERICAN BEAUTY respectively.
front!
37
© The International Arcade Museum
http://www.arcade-museum.com/
So what are we looking for based on the picture?
It would
appear that we are looking for a 5-way White Manufacturing Com
pany floor machine made around 1904.
Some background is in
order here.
There are quite a number of White floor machines around; ex
amples known are OWL, UNO, JUDGE, late models of the CHI
CAGO RIDGE, OOM-PALL, AMERICAN BEAUTY and others.
We already know that White machines practically duplicate Berger
machines, only there's more of them and they're later.
where knowledge comes in.
That's
The Chicago-based Paul E. Berger
Manufacturing Company of the 1890s sold out to the White Man
ufacturing Company in 1902, with White continuing to produce
the Berger machines while adding a lot of their own. Unmistakable
Berger-White characteristics are large coin heads and elaborate
curved cast handles.
The biggest clue of all to the Berger-White
origin of the machine in the picture is the center position coin
head, a location pioneered on the Berger electric machines and
carried forward by White on a number of machines in its all me
chanical line.
Not only that, the side-crank coin head is a Berger
patent, used by White.
Now comes the dating; Berger never made a machine that looked
like this one, so the model is pure White. In 1902 and 1903 White
was up to its ears getting the original Berger machines into pro
duction so it wasn't until late 1903 or 1904 that White really got
rolling on its own line.
The machine in the picture is so clever
and original we must assume it wasn't the first of the new White
machines, therefore, judging production to be 1904 or even later.
As for the machine itself; it's a marvel. The wheel is completely
different than anything else in the floor machine line, although
the coin head and play handle are straight out of the White OWL
.com It's the bottom of
m
:
u
om turn-on.
use What you're looking at are
the cabinet that's the
m
d fr total
-
e
e
d
ad glass that are loaded with tracks of
payout runways
rc behind
nloa visible
a
.
w
o
w
dimes, D
quarters, w
w half-dollars and silver dollars. Imagine a surviving
example ht that
tp:// might have had a board nailed over a broken glass
and White AMERICAN BEAUTY respectively.
front!
37
© The International Arcade Museum
http://www.arcade-museum.com/
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