Title: A friend need's help
Post by: Pat Pixley on June 12, 2006, 10:14:35 pm
A friend of mine and your's Steve Jebb need our help
in putting a ID to this machine please take a look.
Thanks
Pat
in putting a ID to this machine please take a look.
Thanks
Pat
Title: A friend need's help
Post by: sodaworks on June 12, 2006, 10:48:35 pm
That's one wierd looking machine.
Title: A friend need's help
Post by: Jim on June 13, 2006, 05:05:24 am
Pat,
Steve sent me a photo of this machine a few months back(I think it was Steve). I have no idea of the manufacturer or model but would like to see more detailed photos such as the coin mech area and vending mechanism...
Steve sent me a photo of this machine a few months back(I think it was Steve). I have no idea of the manufacturer or model but would like to see more detailed photos such as the coin mech area and vending mechanism...
Title: A friend need's help
Post by: dr galaga on June 13, 2006, 07:14:14 am
Very strange indeed! 
Title: A friend need's help
Post by: Eric on June 13, 2006, 08:56:10 am
Wonder if there were decals along the bottom that got painted over or a small name plate
that's painted over
On a Coke cooler I had you could see where there was a decal at one time...
Surely there was something along the bottom or underneath or in the door liner.
It's gotta be a 60s machine... different.
that's painted over
On a Coke cooler I had you could see where there was a decal at one time...
Surely there was something along the bottom or underneath or in the door liner.
It's gotta be a 60s machine... different.
Title: A friend need's help
Post by: collecture on June 13, 2006, 10:27:41 am
It is a very odd looking machine. The louvres in front look like the SelectiVend louvres.
Could this be a fantasy machine fabricated by some metalsmith at sometime? It doesn't conform to any style that any of us have seen - the legs look like they belonged to one of the old refrigerators and the top 2/3 of the front looks like a butchered ST 56 machine door. Might be some guy just built something from spare parts.
Could this be a fantasy machine fabricated by some metalsmith at sometime? It doesn't conform to any style that any of us have seen - the legs look like they belonged to one of the old refrigerators and the top 2/3 of the front looks like a butchered ST 56 machine door. Might be some guy just built something from spare parts.
Title: A friend need's help
Post by: dr galaga on June 13, 2006, 01:45:02 pm
I was thinking the same thing as you collecture, like it used to be a Dr Pepper machine.
Wasn't SV the company that butchered up other manufacturer's machines? Maybe it was a test machine.
Wasn't SV the company that butchered up other manufacturer's machines? Maybe it was a test machine.
Title: A friend need's help
Post by: Pat Pixley on June 13, 2006, 02:27:56 pm
Well I will drop some other photo's that I have from Steve
of the inside . And it could have been a test machine who knows.
I will get in touch with Steve and have him get a photo of the coin Mech.
Thanks
Pat
of the inside . And it could have been a test machine who knows.
I will get in touch with Steve and have him get a photo of the coin Mech.
Thanks
Pat
Title: A friend need's help
Post by: Pat Pixley on June 13, 2006, 08:21:47 pm
Here are some more photo's of Steve machine's
please take a look.
Thanks
Pat
please take a look.
Thanks
Pat
Title: A friend need's help
Post by: dr galaga on June 13, 2006, 08:36:04 pm
Interesting approach to load/hold the cans.
Is that the can opener (or should we say puncturer) in the first pic?
Is that the can opener (or should we say puncturer) in the first pic?
Title: A friend need's help
Post by: vend_dr on June 14, 2006, 08:05:42 pm
The only machines I have ever seen with this type of loading of the cans were made by Rock Ola, not only that Rock Ola seemed to have loved live display's on thier machines. I do not know when they started to make machines could this be an early Rock Ola?
Just found online that Rockola (spelled this way too) was in business since 1926 and that they moved into Pinballs and many other items in the 1930's.
Here is an ebay auction featuring a Rock Ola soda machine Auction
Just found online that Rockola (spelled this way too) was in business since 1926 and that they moved into Pinballs and many other items in the 1930's.
Here is an ebay auction featuring a Rock Ola soda machine Auction
Title: A friend need's help
Post by: Pat Pixley on June 15, 2006, 10:38:43 pm
Well I talked to Steve last night he looked over everything
that was brought up about this machine .
This is a factory machine not some home made machine,
Jim The Coin Mech is gone but he said there was a national coin Mech that went to this machine And Jim Steve did send you these photo's.
The true color is the Green it is a shade lighter than Dr. Pepper green. There are no decals or tag's on this machine he has looked. Dr Yes that is the can opener.
I will be getting more photo's of this machine over the weekend and I will drop them when I get them.
From Steve And myself Thanks For looking and helping out.
Pat
that was brought up about this machine .
This is a factory machine not some home made machine,
Jim The Coin Mech is gone but he said there was a national coin Mech that went to this machine And Jim Steve did send you these photo's.
The true color is the Green it is a shade lighter than Dr. Pepper green. There are no decals or tag's on this machine he has looked. Dr Yes that is the can opener.
I will be getting more photo's of this machine over the weekend and I will drop them when I get them.
From Steve And myself Thanks For looking and helping out.
Pat