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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: StinkyPete on December 01, 2016, 03:28:10 PM
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Who remembers these? :popcorn
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The "Flying Fox" transaction device was common in the 1950s department stores. There's one still set up in Laidley, QLD, as a historical item.
The idea was there was only one cash register, and dockets and cash travelled to the cashier in a cylinder on the wire and change and receipts went back.
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Who remembers these? :popcorn
Who's been to the Great Northern Emporium at Quorn?
(http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/uu159/williamson_photos/Ulysses%20Mildura%20AGM%202012/SANY0854.jpg) (http://s643.photobucket.com/user/williamson_photos/media/Ulysses%20Mildura%20AGM%202012/SANY0854.jpg.html)
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Who remembers these? :popcorn
Ka-CHING!... whirr whirr whirr ... kaplonk! (if you were close enough to hear it reach its destination)
... and then wait for the return trip with your change.
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There is one in Winton QLD still functional, grew up watching it work
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When the SA Motor Registration was in the old building at the railway station, they had vacuum tubes for moving documents around between offices. Documents were put inside a cylinder, and the cylinder would be placed in a tube to shoot it off to it's destination. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube
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Junor's General Store in Kyogle had one in the 1960s & 1970s (and probably well before that). The cashier was upstairs 1 floor so some of the springs were quite strong for the sales points close to the cashier's point.
Cheers,
Gary
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When the SA Motor Registration was in the old building at the railway station, they had vacuum tubes for moving documents around between offices. Documents were put inside a cylinder, and the cylinder would be placed in a tube to shoot it off to it's destination. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube
I think most Coles Stores still use that system for excess cash in the till as it's the safest way to get the money (notes) to the store's safe.
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Yep. Pressed metal ceilings. :grin
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Yep. Pressed metal ceilings. :grin
Hahaha.
Cheers,
Gary
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