scan: 1961 17th Annual Amusement Trades Exhibition 31 Jan 2 Feb, 1961 Catalogue And Desk Diary

I am ecstatic to announce that in collaboration with Nic Costa and Christchurch University we have the Annual Amusement Trades Exhibition Catalogue And Desk Diary from 11 different years!

These are incredibly important documents that give us so much information about the coinop business in the UK.  Each company is listed with a small writeup of what they are bringing, plus a number of wonderful advertisement images. 

Let's kick things off with the earliest one in the collection, 1961. (download at internet archive)

1961 17th Annual Amusement Trades Exhibition 31 Jan 2 Feb, 1961 Catalogue And Desk Diary 
SOURCE: Nic Costa Archive MSS, School of Creative Arts and Industries, Canterbury Christ Church University, DC-NC/K/A/1-11.

This means that the first Exhibition was in 1945.  If you know where ANY of the first 16 annual Catalogues are, PLEASE GET IN TOUCH!  thetastates@gmail.com

 

Companies:

 

Some of the contents:

 

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