Mechanical Memories Magazine

BAC clearly traded from the early years of the twentieth century, if not earlier, but what
became of them? They would certainly have taken a serious knock du,ing WWII, not
least because their chocolate venders would have been redundant due to sweet
rationing, which continued until 1953. But they certainly did survive the war, and
continued to trade for a considerable number of years. Bob Klepner worked in London
for a while back in the '50s, and recalls BAC were still operating machines on the
Underground at that time, so it seems they survived well into the post WWII pe1iod. I
personally recall four column Nestles machines on BR Southern region stations in the
60s, which I have reason to believe were also BAC machines.
I also remember weighing machines that were sited in Woolworth ' s in the ' 60s,
which dispensed a picture card, about the same size as a cigarette card. Cliff Prince
emailed me details of one of these cards that sold on ebay recently, which was issued by
BAC in I 953. So could the weighing machines I remember in the '60s have been
operated by BAC?
NESTLE'S
YOUR AUTOMATIC CHOICE
Nestles.four column chocolate vender fi'om the 1960s, believed to be a BAC machine.
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