Locations - Africa and Asia

Shops

China

(?) BEIJING. The BBC Radio 4 programme "Home Truths" on 25 May 2002 reported sightings by listeners Cromerty Gasp and Pipple Atkins in Reading, Ballymena and Beijing.

BEIJING. See Fisher in References

HONG KONG. Jumbo restaurant, Aberdeen. Steeply-graded wire system for passing notes between the restaurant and the kitchens below.

SHANGHAI. See Hadfield in References

Visitors to Beamish Museum have reported cash ball systems in China.

David Holt reports a photograph of a wire system in a shop probably in Wanchai.

Michael Czehatowski said in Inc.com magazine that he had seen cash baskets being used in herb stores in Shanghai and Hong Kong the previous year [1997] , but later told me that it might have actually been in Beijing.

South Africa

GRAHAMSTOWN. T. Birch & Co. "The Lamson cash trolleys that operate on an overhead wire system are still in operation ... along with the vacuum tube delivery system to the upstairs academic gown department." Birch's website.

MALMESBURY, Cape Province. Shop with cash carrier in 1975. T.Hardcastle in This England, Summer 1975.

Singapore

SINGAPORE CITY. C.K.Tang. Cash carrier. ("Lozzo" in posting to uk.rec.motorcycles group, 14/12/04)

UBIN Village Centre. "Pay for a purchase and your change will be retrieved from a used Milo tin suspended from a pulley overhead - just like the days before the advent of the cash registers. Wetlands vol. 5, no. 2, August 1998

Sri Lanka

COLOMBO. Cargills Department Store, corner of York and Princes Street. Pneumatic tube system - apparently still on view. Sunday Times [Sri Lanka] 29 Nov. 1998