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DCRfan · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:00 pm Post subject: Cash railways

Now I have seen everything and a interesting comprehensive website as well.

http://www.ids.u-net.com/cash/intro.htm

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dr5euss · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject:

Yeah they have that at B&Q but using air...never though of it as a kinda railway Smile

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michael · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:42 am Post subject:

When I was a kid and went shopping with my mother, she used to go to a place on the corner of Acton High street and Horn lane call D.H. Evans they carried fabrics and sewing type stuff, I always enjoyed going in there because they had one of those type systems. The lady would put mums money into a tube which reotated into a trolley with two wheels, then she would pull on a wooden handle hanging on a green chord there whoud be a sort of recoil click, and the litte trolly would shoot all the way around the store to the central elevated booth. after a few moments it would come back.

A really fond memory.
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DCRfan · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:52 am Post subject:

I to have a similar memory of a childhood visit to a department store in the big smoke. I now realise there must have been only one casher in the whole multifloor building.

But calling it a railway????

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Gavin Sowry · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:36 am Post subject:

Not so much one cashier, but the whole accounting department out of harms way. Even our own City, which can't decide on what to call itself, had one. Leiberziets in High St where Books and More are used that system, so did Farmers in Wellington. Leiberziets also sold model trains, mostly Hornby Dublo. Smile

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Steve Bennett · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:48 pm Post subject:

I can only remember seeing the air powered ones, I dont recall that type being used around here. Seems they are making a bit of a comeback, I have a feeling there was something on the TV about the local hospital installing one of these systems.
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AndyA · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:12 pm Post subject:

bobblackcloud · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject:

There's a pub near Nantwich that sends food orders from the bar to the kitchen via a system of clear plastic tube with pneumatic power. More by way of a novelty than a necessity though.
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Peter · Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject:

Most of the Home Depots in the New York area have pneumatic setups for sending stuff about, though I've never seen one in use.
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Giles B · Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:54 pm Post subject: cash railways

I can remember at least two of the "wires and pull-handle" variety from my 1950s childhood in Windsor. Both were in draper's shops.

Funnily enough some local supermarkets today seem to have gone over to the pneumatic system for whisking cash from the tills to the safety of the accounts office. In one case locally I think the technology may be more "string down a drainpipe" to haul away the cannister, but the end result is the same - but railway? Well, perhaps, if you count the old postal pneumatique system in Paris as one.
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chris krupa · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:01 am Post subject:

A local grocer in Weymouth, where I grew up, had a sort of monorail system in the 1950s. Cars, shaped a bit like the lid of a screw top jar were suspended from a single rail. The assistant put the hand written bill plus the cash into a jar, screwed it into the hanging lid/car and pulled a handle. This operated a system of cables, hung below the monorail, propelling the car and its load into the cash office which could be seen in a corner of the shop.

Here the cash carrier was removed, the bill stamped and any change returned to the counter.

I've seen a working example of the ball carrier in a replica Coop shop in Beamish museum in County Durham. Having worked for the CWS (Cooperative Wholesale Society) in the 1970s, even then it was an old fashioned organisation rooted in the past.

Chris

Giles B · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject: cash railways

One of the shops I remember with an overhead wire system was a small department store, and I think that all the different counters on the ground floor were connected. What I can't recall is whether each counter had a separate line to the central accounts, or was there a "main line" with "points" leading to a siding above each counter. I have a sort of feeling it was the latter option but cannot think how the central cashier could have set up a route back to the right counter. Anyone got any thoughts?
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