This fine looking machine is a 1970s Syro Pendamatic Change / Coin Dispenser GB-II 32612. Manufactured by Syro of Zuwil, Switzerland, well known manufacturers of steel, iron and ferro-alloys.
Made from non-ferrous metal, the dispenser is in good working condition with some surface scratches and blemishes: there are no screws missing and no dents either. It would probably have been used on a British bus or coach.
Approximate Size (WHD): 29 x 12.2 x 5.6cm
Engraved on the side with Swiss Made and 32612 GB II
It would have originally taken the following coins:
¹/2p / 1p / 2p / 5p / 10p / 50p
The small 1/2 pence coin was discontinued in 1984 and the 1/2p slot changed to 20p by the bus corporation.
The coin is fed through the slot at the top and released through the base by depressing the lever. It would make a great novelty money box or repository for all that loose change!
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