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ShopsBATH. Cater, Stoffell and Fortt, High Street. "We have briefly referred to the completion of the handsome premises in High-street which have been absolutely transformed from the 'Bath Drapery Bazar', vice The Greyhound... Provisions and drugs are, perhaps, somewhat incongruous companions, and it may be that this prompted the placing of the hansdome cash desks between these two departments. This desk will be fitted with Lamson's Store Service System, as used at No. 20, High-street." Bath Chronicle, 15 Nov. 1894, p. 5 BATH. James Colmer, Union Street. Pneumatic tube system. Cash office was situated on the top of the building inside the offices. Bath Chronicle, 18 May 2004, p.10 BATH. F. Ealand and Co. (silk mercers). "An old-established business house (drapery) .. will shortly be having a vacancy in their cash desk... Cash railway used." Western Daily Press, 25 Jun. 1909, p. 2 BATH. Evans & Owen. "It consisted of large wooden balls which one had to screw together joining the two halves, after first placing the cash and bill inside. They were then sent along tracks to the various departments from the little cash desk which one had to climb into via an iron ladder." Bath Chronicle, 18 May 2004, p.10 BATH. Shop on Milsom Street (Evans & Owen?). "I hadn't really expected to find that wonderful shop still there, near the Turkish Baths where customers handed over their money which was screwed into a wooden ball and by some magic this was sent travelling overhead, along a wire track, to some very dignified looking cashiers who sat looking down on the proceedings." Bath Chronicle, 8 May 2003, p.11 BATH. Mitchells (haberdashers), Southgate Street. "They had those little cash boxes which were screwed into units on the ceiling and then hurtled across the shop to the cashier like trolley-buses." Bath Chronicle, 11 Sep. 1998, p.27. "I recall shopping with my mother in about the mid 1920s at a shop called Mitchells.. I was fascinated by the cash system from counter to cash desk in tubing that ran overhead. As far as I remember it was called Lampson Paragon Pneumatic tube type system. Ibid., 7 May 2004, p.10 BRIDGWATER. E.W.Hill, Cornhill "has the honour of introducing in Bridgwater the American automatic cash railway." Bridgwater Mercury, 13 Oct. 1886, p. 5 GLASTONBURY. Co-op, High Street. "The Glastonbury and Street Co-op was next. The original building was modernized just before the war. An overhead wire system conveyed the cash to the cash desk." Glastonbury Conservation Society website ILMINSTER. Dyers, 21 Silver Street. Cash carrier. Bob Pendleton MIDSOMER NORTON. Co-op. "When you bought anything, the assistant would put your money and the invoice in a canister, which was then attached to a wire above his head. The canister would whizz across the ceiling to the cash office. A few seconds later, it would come whizzing back with any change needed and the invoice stamped 'paid'." Woman's Weekly, 27 June 2006, p.33 MINEHEAD. Floyds. Cash carrier. Rita Willis in posting to Facebook. RADSTOCK. Co-op. "The new railway cash system which had been initiated had given every satisfaction." Somerset Guardian, 9 Jul. 1904, p. 5 TAUNTON. Brakes (dept. store). Overhead wire system in 1950s. Sheila Green TAUNTON. Clements and Browns. Olivia Clabburn on Facebook TAUNTON. Co-op. Pneumatic tube system in 1950s. Sheila Green TAUNTON. County Stores. Wire system in 1950s. Wendy Feder TAUNTON. Heading Mitchell, 2 Fore Street. "Arthur W. Parker & Co., F.A.I., have been favoured with instructions from Messrs. Heading Mitchell Ltd. .. to sell by auction on the premises .. shop fittings .. including Lamson Paragon Cash Railway Installation." Taunton Courier, 14 Sep. 1957, p. 2 TAUNTON. Wilson & Marke, 12 East Street. "With the click of the cash carrier our responsibility to each customer commences." Taunton Courier and Wester Advertiser, 28 May 1924, p. 4 WELLINGTON. Co-op, North Street
(now Belvedere Court). "[In 1928], Win Troake was in the office
which was connected with each counter by an overhead cash system." WESTON SUPER MARE. E.M. Trevor. "I used to work in E M Trevor, opposite Colmers. I sat at the till in the office at the bottom of the chute putting the change in and stamping the receipts!" Jill Hulin on Walker and Ling Facebook page
YEOVIL. Clements & Sons, 22 High Street. "Messrs Clements & Sons have recently installed a cash railway system, an ingenious arrangement for conveying cash from various points .. to the cash desk." Western Chronicle, 20 Jan. 1905, p. 5 YEOVIL. Main Co-op, Middle Street. Wire system in 1950s. ?Three lines. Tony Jervis YEOVIL. Eli Wilson & Sons. "The second firm in Yeovil to institute the overhead cash railway system is Messrs. Eli Wilson & Sons, in whose extensive premises this up-to-date method of dealing with customers' payments is now adopted." Western Chronicle, 3 Feb. 1905 |
indicates systems which are still there (as far as I know) though they may not be working.
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