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Title: English Mills Screen Stars
Post by: Rpowell18 on November 03, 2021, 06:00:17 PM

I found this machine at an antique store and i believe its a 1940 english i pence Machine that someone converted back to an American Gaming Machine..Not Sure what the american currency would be ,I am wanting to put it back to the way it was  originally, but tring to fine the reel glass and the single reel.any ideas where to find parts ..already talked to squires with not like...thanks

Title: Re: English Mills Screen Stars
Post by: shortrackskater on November 04, 2021, 10:30:09 AM

How much did you pay for it? I've never seen this style machine ever, but apparently there's a series of them including "Film Stars, Bomber Command," and more.
I found a large collection here and extracted two photos of what your machine looked like before it got modified, or "modified back." I'm reading more on Tom Bolland revamps... 

https://penny-arcade.info/the-tom-boland-collection

Please pull out the mechanism and post a few photos, front and back.

I'm wondering if the entire mechanism was replaced with a "standard" three reel mech. I'm not exactly sure how the original one worked. I'll send out a message to Monti at "Coinopcollectorforum.com" and get him to respond here. If you do a search there, you'll get some more information as well. And, I'd recommend to join that forum since it's much more oriented toward mechanical machines. 

Title: Re: English Mills Screen Stars
Post by: MONTI'S SLOTS on November 04, 2021, 11:10:04 AM

Rpowell18!
Probably your best bet would be Freddy Bailey for information on slots from Britain and information on Tom Boland!
He used to post on Dave Burrit's Coin Op Forum quite a bit with another friend of mine Bill Whelan until Bill's passing a couple years back but I have not heard from him recently since that time!
Link for Coin Op Forum is here below;

https://www.coinopcollectorforum.com/ (https://www.coinopcollectorforum.com/)

Freddy's email address was and may still be as below;

anglobritish@aol.com

Personally I have no information on this particular slot machine and whenever I had questions on European Slots or European Slot History Freddy was my go to guy!

Try the Coin Op Forum as I believe he is still on their Forum list!
BONA FORTUNA!
CIAO
MONTI

Title: Re: English Mills Screen Stars
Post by: Rpowell18 on January 13, 2022, 05:33:18 PM

Ok thanks ..It was converted to a Mills 3 reel machine at some point ..it plays and pays so it is the best of both worlds ..i paid 600.00 for it and repaired..They drilled holes in it to install a padlock the door and put the correct mills lock on it .. Thanks for all you input