by Anglobritish » Sun Jan 17, 2016 9:37 am
Hi,
I think the comment about the casting of these parts being too good to be made in Europe is a little unnecessary, When I was converting machine in the U.K in the 1950's, I had the payout slides and top cover made in the Rolls Royce plant in Derby, they were made of bronze, to this day Rolls Royce is still the leading car in the World, also the German Mercedes and BMW are still the leading luxury cars of today.
Most of the castings used in Bally machines are made in the Bally/Wulf factory in Germany.
In the next 60 years Collectors of slot machines all over the World will be collecting machines built by the companies that are owned by either the Gauselmann Group or the Novamatic Group. Both German Companies, by the way Paul Gauselman as the largest collection of coin operated in the world, they are on display in The Gauselmann Museum in Germany.
Back in the 1920's Tara (A German company) built both the Mills machines and the Jennings machines under license, and if you look at the Service Games (Sega) parts catalog of 1958 it tells the operator of Mills Bell-O-Matic how to modify their Mills machines to stop them being cheated, by the way at that time Service Games (Nevada) Inc. was the exclusive distributor for Nevada, they also at that time built all of the parts for Mills machines in Japan.
Freddy Bailey
The Official British Coin Machine Industry-"Serving The Coin Machine Industry Since 1958"