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ShopsThe first systems in Cornwall claim to be at Chirgwins, Penzance in 1894 (wire system) and Vivian Brothers, Cambourne in 1899 (ball system). CAMBORNE. Coop Stores. Now a chemists shop. Wire system. Royal Inst. of Cornwall Library CAMBORNE. Hugh Rice & Sons (drapers and ladies' outfitters). "For your convenience and ours, we have recently fitted our shop with the most up-to-date system of cash railway (the only one of its kind in Cornwall)." Cornubian and Redruth Times, 28 Oct. 1905, p. 1 CAMBORNE. Vivian Bros., Market Square/Basset
Road. "Messrs. Vivians' drapery establishment has been fitted by the Lamson store service company with their patent cash railway system. The principle is that known as 'the ball system'... Messrs. Vivian have seven stations whence these balls keep rolling to and fro. The only other place in Cornwall where the Lamson system is adopted is at Penzance, where Messrs. R. Chirgwin and Son have had it in operation for years with success." Cornishman, 23 Mar. 1899, p. 4 FALMOUTH. Co-op, Market Street. Cash carrier. Royal Inst. of Cornwall Library FALMOUTH. International. Cash carrier. Diana MacIntosh in posting to Facebook LISKEARD. Co-op. "Our Co op in Liscard had one of those for sending money to the cash dept." Colin Galle on Facebook NEWQUAY. Co-op, Fore Street. "A cold storage chamber has been installed and .. a system of cash railways." Cornish Guardian, 24 May 1934, p. 3 PENZANCE. R. Chirgwin (grocers and confectioners), Market Place. "The shop of Messrs. R. Chirgwin and Son .. has been fitted within the last day or so with a most ingenious overhead railway system for the carriage of cash and accounts from the counter to the cash office. The celerity with which this is done, on a catapultic system, is only equalled by the neatness of the arrangements connected with its invention. This is the first of the kind fitted west of Plymouth... The system is Lamson's patent, and has been fitted by the Lamson store-service company, of 20, Cheapside, London, and Boston, U.S.A. The new idea is the subject of much favourable comment." Cornishman, 15 Nov. 1894, p. 3 PENZANCE. Co-op, Parade Street, facing Meeks. Pneumatic tube system. Trevalyan, posting to Picture Penzance, 21/11/09 PENZANCE. Frank Jacobs, 32-33 Market Jew Street. Wire system in 1950s/60s. Shop ceased
trading in 1992. Cornwall Studies Library PENZANCE. Shaw and Woods, just up from Simpsons. "My cousin used to work in Simpsons, great fun to see the money put in the canister, then pull a handle and it whizzed to the office and it came back with a receipt in it." Symons55 posting to Picture Penzance, 21/11/09 PENZANCE. Simpsons. Wire system. Rev. P.Stephens PENZANCE. Wilton and Nicholls (hardware), Market Jew Street. Cash carrier. Liz Tregonning on Facebook. REDRUTH. Cockings (drapers), Fore Street. Cash carrier. Cornwall Studies Library
REDRUTH. Opie (photography), Treruffe Hill. Gipe carrier system. Advertisement in The Cornubian, 14 Jan. 1909, p.4 REDRUTH. H.T. Williams. 79-81 Fore Street. "Come and see .. our new 'Meteor' cash-carrier, the first installation in West Cornwall. Inspection of our showrooms is heartily welcomed." Cornubian and Redruth Times, 12 Dec. 1907, p. 10 ST AUSTELL. Jones(?), shoes. Cash carrier. Mary Parsons on Facebook TRURO. N.Gill & Son. "Messrs. Gill and Son, whose fine drapery establishment is unsurpassed in Cornwall for its size .. has just had added to it a cash railway. This is somewhat of a novelty in Cornwall... Now the assistants place their cash in a ball which is hoisted by a lift, and by means of overhead areal lines gravitates to an out-of-sight office... The hollow spheres used are coloured respectively according to the different stations about the establishment." Royal Cornwall Gazette, 9 Apr. 1903, p. 5 TRURO. Hugh Rice (drapers and gents outfitters), 10 Quay Street (or Boscawen Street). Cash carrier. Royal Inst. of Cornwall Library TRURO. W.J.Roberts & Sons, drapers and haberdashers, aka Bon Marché pre-WW2. "Mrs Phyllis Spurrrell, now aged 95, remembers how the shop assistants would put the money in a screw-top container, and by pulling a chain would send it along rails to the cashier, seated higher up in the shop, who would send change back the same way." Acton, Viv and Bob. A history of Truro. Vol. 2. Truro: Landfall, 2002, p.61. Shop occupied by Ottakers in 2003. TRURO. Webb & Co. See TRURO. Gill |
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