Photographs
Channel Islands
ST HELIER, Jersey. Freddie Baker (drapers). Wire system in 1950s. (Jersey Museum)
ST HELIER, Jersey. Noel and Porter (drapers) 8-16 King Street (now BHS). Wire system in 1950s. (Jersey Museum)
ST HELIER, Jersey. George D. Laurens, 3-7 Queen Street. Wire system in 1950s. Firm closed in 1973 and site is now Monsoon. (Jersey Museum)
ST HELIER, Jersey. Le Riches Stores. Wire system in 1950s. (Jersey Museum)
ST PETER PORT, Guernsey. Le Riches Stores, 49 High Street. Four Rapid Wire propulsions shown in one photograph of the grocery department and three in another in Renault.
Czech Republic
OPAVA. Hermann und Vogel department store. "Those cash dispensers that shot capsules along wires across the store". (Heinz Vogel's Memoirs. ch.4)
PRAGUE. One of the staff at Beamish Museum told me that a lot of shops in Prague had wire systems.
Finland
A Lamson pneumatic tube system was "re-discovered" in store in Central Finland by Lamsons' agent. It was installed in 1903. (Lamson News)
France
MARNE
LA VALÉE. Emporium,
Disneyland Paris. This is built in the style of a 19th century
U.S. department store. It includes "an overhead cable-driven money
exchange system that serves the cashier's office" (Disney
Vacation Planner).It is not an original but a reconstruction by Walt
Disney Imagineering based on a photograph in "New
York interiors at the turn of the century".
Germany
MAINZ. "Every once in a while my mother went to visit her father at his store close by the cathedral... Roaming through the store, we raced the overhead money cages which carried the customers' payments from the sales counters to a central cashier and returned with the change." Doris Drucker. Invent radium or I'll pull your hair: a memoir. Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press, 2004. p.38. (Her family emigrated from Germany to America in 1932.)