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hi everyone

whilst trawling the web today found an image not seen before

have kept it for my library but thought would share it here too


when i was a kid healds delivered to your door in bottles milk

and orange too

i moved away but am now back living about a mile from their

old bottling plant which was demolished for new housing in the

90's.

the healds didsbury was the operator, however above that is

another label which i found even more interesting as i am aware

of there name Sankey Sheldon but had no idea that they were

manifacturing or assembling vendo machines over here in UK in

the sixties?

i am aware of sankey sheldon from their manufacture of other metal

items in the 50s and 60's namely metal [tanker style] desks and filing

cabinets,however knew nothing of any vendo connection....

i did trawl sankey history and there was a lot of it but all i saw was a

diversification into vending with a sub division but no mention of any

vendo collaboration.

from the label it looks like sankey were making them? but was that

manufacturing or assembly of vendo parts or just a distributor of

imported machines


did vendo have any other similar setups or did they just ship machines

to a distributor

anyway heres the pix

going to get a print of this and get framed for the cellar i think

 :needphotos:

i knew i wouldnt be able to downsize my pix

before someone posted that....................


anyhow here goes

hope it works this time but isnt too small!

That is a really cool bezal. Twice the length of U.S. versions. Thanks for the post!
Creighton

thx creighton.

i have an 81d in the kitchen and it didnt even cross my mind

that the coin entry bezel would be any different to standard

vendo 81d bezel.

i just presumed that sankeys would have either assembled 81

parts in england or maybe at best made the outer cabinet in

england using vendo tooling maybe or their own tooling using

vendo specifications and then just bought in all the smaller

parts from vendo us and assembled them onto the new home

produced cabinets.

but as you say the coin entry is completely different layout

and the x3 selection casting frame is different too.............

do you actually think they are wider or just look wider due to

way the bits are laid out

EG on us milk machines coin entry and selection are same width

as each other and UK version are the same as each other in width

but obviously different in design to US...

the x6d light up glass or perspex is very close to x10c but not

sure what kind of coin mech this would have housed anyway.

but all that seems to follow the line that sankey did actiually

make eg manufacture the whole machine under licence.......?

also on 240v not 110v

now vendo machines are very very rare in england and it would

probably be 100 times easier finding an rc81 in the states than

to find one of these sankey made machines over here in UK.


i have only seen pix of sankey massive milk machines so maybe they

only made that option here in UK i will try to find more info on them

GP

well heres more pix of actual machine

they do look longer on these pix so think

you were/are correct on that creighton.


also noted the vendo stamp on bottom

right of front door so have no idea what

sankey actually made/assembled/retooled

GP

The coin door itself is wider on this machine than others that I've seen.

Maybe its a Converted Ice Cream Vendo .It Looks as big as Larry's Ice Cream Vender

That is one big machine. Figure 12" per on the stair risers looks to be +/- 7' tall.
Cool! Thanks.
Creighton

        U.S. milk machines vend only pints...............
        I'll bet that big boy vends quarts.