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London North Western
Railway:
Midland
Railway:
Stratford
Midland Junction Railway
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LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Nuneaton to
Leamington
Coventry Station: lnwrcov625a
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Close up of image 'lnwrcov625' showing the entrance and the
main concourse area in front of the refeshment room on the right. On the right
is an ex-LMS telephone booth and one of British Automatc Company's metal
nameplate stamping machines. Having inserted your one penny you would move the
hand on the large dial to the letter of choice and pull the handle on the side
in the manner of a fruit machine. The Aluminium strip would feed through to the
front of the machine for collection. In essence they operated similar to a
large 'Dymo' which were in fact an adaptation of the technology of the
metal-strip embossing machine. An American plumber named De Souza came up with
the idea of creating a hand-held version using a plastic strip in 1954. He sold
the idea to the International Rotex (later Dymo) Corporation (now part of
Esselte-Dymo, the Swedish office equipment giant). It arrived in Britain in
1959. See below for a photograph of a preserved model at Edinburgh Museum
reproduced with acknowledgement to Douglas Bryce.
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