Vending Collection

Police Public Call Box, London
A police officer using a Police Public Call Box on a London street. The Metropolitan Police introduced police boxes throughout the London area between 1928 and 1937

George V Pillar Box
An English postman in his uniform, demonstrates the knack of buying a book of stamps from a vending machine attached to a King George V pillar box

Vending machine 1960s or 1970s
A hot drinks machine provides tea, coffee and soup Date: 1970s

Parking ticket vending machine, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in the 1980s

Mercurycard telephone and vending machine London 1980s

How the Penny in the Slot Works - little girl with chocolate machine Date: 1930s

The Mechanical Cow - early vending machine
The Automatic Milk Supply- an early form of vending machine installed in Ilford Essex in 1911. Jugs of milk could be filled for one old penny Date: 1911

London Underground station booking hall, with automatic ticket machines at different prices. Date: circa 1930

Film bought from a slot-machine 1928
The wide use of mechanical salesmen : A purchaser getting a film from a slot-machine in Copenhagen, this was used outside a merchants shop to maintain the sale of their wares when the shop is closed

Fruit bought from a slot-machine 1928
Shopping by a slot-machine in Copenhagen after closing. This slot-machine selling fruit was situated outside a merchants shop to maintain the sale of food when the shop was closed. 1928

Buying Travel Insurance Date: 1950

BOYS AND VENDING MACHINE
A group of boys in their school uniform (shorts) gather round a vending machine to wait for their cold drink. Date: 1960s

VENDING MACHINE / LABELS
A vending machine allows you to print out your own labels. A leather gloved hand reaches out for the finished item. Date: 1960s

VENDING MACHINE / CHOCOLAT
A woman putting money into a vending machine selling chocolate and confectionery. Date: 1960s

PHOTOCOPY / VENDING / 1960S
A vending machine offering a photocopying service Docustat which will cost 2 shillings and take 30 seconds. Date: 1960s

Readers Digest vending machine, Exeter station
A vending machine dispensing copies of the Readers Digest at Exeter St Davids station in Devon. At this date, before decimalisation of the currency

Milk and squash vending machines
Two cold drinks vending machines standing side by side, one for cool refreshing milk, the other for cool refreshing Kia-Ora fruit squash

Umbrellas from a-slot machine 1929
The inventor showing off his A-Slot vending machine Not Schirm, G.M.B.H in Berlin, New York, London and Paris. 1929

Platform of Queens Road Underground Station
Central Line Series. A slightly shifty-looking young man with boater and newspaper keeps a watchful eye on a very glamorous lady strolling along the platform at Queens Road. Date: 1904

Selling masks. Interior store. French Quarter. New Orleans. State of Louisiana. USA

London Tube Station
Passengers queueing for tickets at an London Underground tube station leading to the Victoria Line. Note the old ticket vending machines in old money! Date: 1960s

Boys using bubble gum machine, Balham, SW London
Boys using a bubble gum machine on a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Vending Machine / Massage
A vending machine offering a rejuvenating vibrating foot massage

Girl at Vending Machine
A vending machine in an Exeter Post Office selling postal orders amongst other things

Chocolate Machine 1930S
Another passenger watches as a man tries to work out how to use an automatic slot machine vending Caleys famous Marching Chocolate, inside a metropolitan railway carriage

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