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Posted by Tim Leech on January 15, 2008, 6:29 am
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>On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:14:16 +0000, Chris Edwards
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>>Gentlemen
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>> A very long time ago, in the late forties, when our own
>>Norman was a lad, grocery shops such as the Co-op used to have a central
>>cashier's office, rather than individual tills located on the counter.
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>As a lad I used to work in a Sheffield steel melting shop that sent
>cast analysis samples to a lab by tube conveyor over about 800m and
>got the results back by teleprinter.
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>The Lamson company still makes tube systems:
>http://www.lamson.co.uk/docs/pts_overview.php3
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>Bill H
>Derby
Our local ASDA, recently refurbished, does indeed still use the system
to take cash away from the tills but it seems to be entirely a one-way
system. I'm fairly sure that when the place was first built it carried
traffic in both directions.
Tim
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