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Simba wrote:I might have seen them in Tesco too actually - their way of emptying the tills when they close them?
Local Hero wrote:Josef wrote:A couple of links I found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube
http://www.capsu.org/history/telegram_conveyors.html
MOSS, Michael and TURTON, Alison. A legend of retailing: House of Fraser. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989
• p.58, "The first Scottish cash-carrying system was installed in Glasgow at Arnott & Co's Jamaica Street warehouse in 1885. Walter Wilson swiftly copied the idea, installing a cash railway in his Colosseum warehouse in the same year."
• p.84, Pettigrew & Stephens opened in 1901 and had a pneumatic tube system.
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