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.

At the end of the process, it emerged with conveniently rounded ends that
had pinholes in so that you could easily nail it to ... something.

I hade several of these strips for many years but they seem to have all been
lost in my last house move.

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

--
Frank