On 11/02/2013 08:22, Frank Erskine wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:39:46 -0000, "Brian Watson"
wrote:


"Offramp" wrote in message
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When did the last Payne's Poppets machine go?

Deviating and changing the thread name, when was the machine at Liverpool
Street with which you could make metal name plates removed?

Its case was a huge metal casting, and one swung a massive pointer round a
clock face-type dial to the appropriate letter or symbol and thumped
something to impress the chosen item onto a strip of white metal.

There's still one of those machines (or was a few years ago) at the
NRM in York.

I've found a reference to it from a couple of years ago.

If you have a few thousand knocking about you could get your own.

http://www.gcrauctions.com/sale127/lot118.html
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Phil Cook