The result was the 'Silver Queen' followed soon after by the 'Mills Penny' Seeing a market, predominantly in pubs, in the UK Kenyon Wilkinson and his partner George Prock bought the tooling from Watling (and, at first possibly some complete mechanisms) and contacted Sam Norman of Balfour Marine (Engineering) who was assembling Bal-Ami jukeboxes at the time about making a British one-armed bandit. The tooling, now marked Bell-fruit Manufacturing corp, was sold to Kenyon Wilkinson an American who had been selling slot machines to the US military for their bases in Europe. They, having moved to Reno in a failed attempt to stay in the slot business, sold their tooling to two local men who rebranded as Bell-Fruit and set out to build their own machines, this venture soon failed although it did result in a new style front opening case. The famous Watling slot company, who had not kept up with modern designs was the first major maker to decide to get out of the slot machine industry. In the late 1950s, the slot industry in the USA hamstrung by crippling laws was failing. The Bell fruit slot machine company, despite its name hinting at the old days of slot machines, came very late to the slot world.

The Rye Heritage Ctr Collection of Working Models.

See a Selection of the More Complex Machines at Work.

Coin Operated Related Seaside Postcards.

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Vintage 4 reel club fruit machine