Imitating the product's packaging, this elegant, tubular design was one of BMR's earliest.
Two examples of BAC's Platform Ticket vendor (patent GB191002131), the first sporting a later enamel (British Railways came into existence in 1948 as part of Clement Attlees's policy of nationalising public services).
These solid little single column cast aluminium vending machines with their enamel product advertising and brass coin releases, were once common outside shops and stations dispensing VAL Peppermints, Frujetta, Violet Cachous, cigarettes and other small packaged products for one penny.
This machine is on display at the Staffordshire County Museum, Shugborough Hall, Millford, Staffordshire.
The red Wrigley gum vendor is from around the 1940s, and accepted 2 old pennies for a packet of gum. Very few of these have survived.
Three pennies purchased a packet of Arrowmint gum.