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Pneumatic Cash Systems

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There was a shop in Prince of Wales Lane, Warstock, run by a Mrs Peckmore, (or that could have been the name of the shop), and that had the hydraulic system for paying - and that was just a small shop. I remember several shops had it, but can't remember exactly what shops they were, but I think the Co-op in town did. I think it is a good idea to bring it back - no till burgling, no problems with staff pilfering as all the money is dealt with by one or two people - seems sensible to me, but could be a tad slow.
 
Shortie said:
There was a shop in Prince of Wales Lane, Warstock, run by a Mrs Peckmore, (or that could have been the name of the shop), and that had the hydraulic system for paying - and that was just a small shop. I remember several shops had it, but can't remember exactly what shops they were, but I think the Co-op in town did. I think it is a good idea to bring it back - no till burgling, no problems with staff pilfering as all the money is dealt with by one or two people - seems sensible to me, but could be a tad slow.
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Whereabouts was that Shortie ?
 
Shortie - My auntie lived in Prince of Wales Lane, and my uncle was manager of the Co-op at the Maypole. I wonder if that shop was big enough to have the pneumatic tube system. Most larger shops seemed to use it when I was young.

Judy
 
That co-op was TASCOS wasn't it Jayell ? I remember it being a big shop.
Because of it I had to have two divvy numbers, (the other for B'ham co-op).

We go to a pub near here for a meal occasionally and they have a transparent tube running across the ceiling that takes the meal orders to the kitchen. It looks like a rat up a drainpipe !
 
Not sure about that Maypole Baz as I never went to the shop, only to the house in Prince of Wales Lane.

Judy
 
The Co-op on The Flat used to have the tubes in their shop. Where the money went in to the cashier and change came back again in it. Also at Dennison Watch Case on the Soho Road they had them and info' was sent all over the factory in them.
 
Has anyone mentioned the Lamson system used in shops to send cash up to the cash office. You put the money in a metal cylinder and it was sucked away to the mysterious regions of the cash office, when it came back it had the customers "change" in it. The Co op used to have a system on overhead cables.
 
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Has anyone mentioned the Lamson system used in shops to send cash up to the cash office. You put the money in a metal cylinder and it was sucked away to the mysterious regions of the cash office, when it came back it had the customers "change" in it. The Co op used to have a system on overhead cables. And what about sugar in blue unmarked bags?
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Must have had a Lamson system at the newspaper where I worked, it sucked up the smalls, the lineage adverts taken over the front counter and the empty tubes came back. They were glass with rubber tops and bottoms and a leather hinge. They whacked into a ort of a holding reservoir with a dull thud. I remember loose tea and sugar being wrapped in brown paper bags and tied with string.
 
I remmebr the Co-op having over head cables for the cash from the counter to the cash office.
Department stores had pneumatic tubes. But these haven't faded away. Look carefully round the tills next time you go into a large Tesco supemarket.
 
The Co op on the corner of green Lane and Hobmoor road had a overhead wire system. I used to watch the little containers whizzing over my head while I was waiting for mom standing in the queue to spend her ration coupons!
 
Mansel road said:
Has anyone mentioned the Lamson system used in shops to send cash up to the cash office. You put the money in a metal cylinder and it was sucked away to the mysterious regions of the cash office, when it came back it had the customers "change" in it. The Co op used to have a system on overhead cables. And what about sugar in blue unmarked bags?
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We had the overhead cable system in the Moseley Rd co-op when I worked there. One day I gave the wheels a good oiling. When the carriage arrived in her little cubicle the cashier went mad, she and her books were splattered with oil.
Sugar used to arrive in 2cwt sacks and it was my job to fill the 2lb blue bags from it. Used to take ages.
 
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