gamblingman wrote:I'm not a big fan of the Caille machines which use the hydraulic pump, but I thought I would throw these pics up there of a restoration I did a few years back. Of all places, I found this in an antique store in Salt Lake City. It was a basket case, and the mech came in pieces in a cardboard box. I have a pic of when it was found, and a couple after I was done, minus the award card on top...it was added later. It looks a lot like the Cadet model, but with a lot more chrome. I was told it was a "Play-Boy" model, which featured "no lemon" strips. I really haven't researched it, and I have found a lot of pics that are close, but I've never found a pic of a machine exactly the same. So if anyone has any info to add, please let me know. There is a brass plate on the side with the number 113437
gamblingman wrote:Wow, thanks for posting the pics. I remember talking to someone in the industry from California, who told me Caille turned out a lot of modified machines there at the end.....probably to get rid of parts and pieces they had lying around. That pic of the one with the "Stingray Trim" is really intriguing. I like Chrome....but I'm with you in that I can't believe they would do something like that. Seems like I am getting a history lesson every time I log on to the computer....thanks!
Re: Caille Play-Boy (No Lemon)
by SLOT DYNASTY » Mon Jul 15, 2013 2:17 pm
You are correct about the WTF file. I have never seen this configuration, with a now even higher top section, with the 'stingray' trim piece.
Also notice that the award card is placed over the famous Caille coin escalator window. What gives with that? This is what makes our machine hobby
so damn interesting at times. Of all the machine history that I have researched over the years, I was never that interested in the later Caille "Uglies",
therefore never persued the history. Dick Bueschel did do some research on them, but not as extensive as all other mfrs. models. My guess here, is
that we have another one of those owner-operator configurations that went nowhere. It would be very interesting to see this machine in person, and
get into the bowels of it, to see what they did. Where was this machine supposedly located?
andydotp wrote:I figure marsonion's nailed it.
Perhaps akin to what National (?) produced to conceal elaborate slug detectors on other brands - like the very tall-headed Jennings & Pace examples (which are dead-set real).
It certainly fits the time period but I'll happily stand corrected - on marsonion's behalf
Always keen to learn from here, thx.
(answers on the back of a fifty BTW)
andydotp
marsonion wrote:I'd sure appreciate a link to a picture or a printed page reference of an example of the "very tall-headed" machines, because I sure can't recollect where I've seen them before. I've scoured books and magazines for a couple of hours already, but turned up nothing. And Andy, it would make me feel lots better to know I wasn't hallucinating those nightmarish slug-detecting towers.
marsonion wrote:Here are some pictures of a late-model Caille machine (the owner was sure it was a Play-Boy) with some sort of stingray-like plate of trim at the top surrounding the denomination tag-- really, I have no idea why they would've done something like this. Also, a I'm posting a copy of the Knockout model ad from Bueschel's "Lemons, Cherries..." etc.
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