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We used to maintain a purely mechanical one very similar to that when I was a 2nd Year PMG Tech in training.  1958

I think that we called them 'kick back carriers'.

The post office front counter used it to send Telegram lodgement forms to the Telegraph room (which we also maintained) at the back of the building.  They still used morse keys & senders & some of the relatively high tech Model15 Teletypes & Paper Tape Perforators, both from WW2 stock.  

The large department store Cribb & Foote at Ipswich used an extensive pneumatic system to transport sales dockets & cash from all the sales counters to the accounts department a couple of floors up, who would record the sale & send back the correct change.  No cash or registers kept at the counters.  I recently saw a similar system still installed in a country General Store on the way to Kingaroy. 

I spent a XMAS School break working on the C&F Men's Wear sales counter before joining PMG.

Those were the days when we also maintained & wound up the Town Clock on a weekly basis. Trainees wound the mechanisms & Senior Techs did the time adjustments etc.. not to mention other jobs like fixing the 'high tech' fluro lights high up on the Post Office ceiling.  Tubes & starters for us Trainees & Ballasts for the Senior Techs.

rmoor wrote:

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There was a system in the old Flag Store at Wellington NSW. All the cash would go in a basket to old Roundhead in the centre of the store in the cashiers box and he would return the change in the basket. The store was called the Red Flag Store up until 1905 when it then underwent a name change due to the advent of communism.
Now we have turned the full circle and had a commie in Victoria and now one in Canberra too!!!!

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 And how fortunate we are

rmoor wrote:

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I still have an old wooden clothes hanger with the words "Red Flag Store" printed on it.
Maybe I should mail it to Parliament House addressed to Albo.
He could us it to hang in his cupboards in some far away hotel while he is on one of his many trips.

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 Then he might exceed his baggae allowance and destroy his greeie credentials

A store in Gayndah in Qld still had such a system a couple of years back.

Southern Cruizer wrote:

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So do I. First saw one in Condobolin many years ago and there is one in Coolamon I think

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 You are correct there is one in Coolamon in the old Iverach general store. My late Auntie Lyla was married to Orman Iverach. As a child on visits to Coolamon with my parents  I have vague memories of Orman behind the counter in a white apron serving customers. 
My Dad had a 1948 Ford Anglia that we travelled from Sydney down the Hume . The worst section of road was a very corrugated dirt section from Wagga to Coolamon,. The old Anglia was not known for a soft ride on dirt nor was it sealed against dust ingress.

Passed through the town a few months back and delighted to see a continuation of a revival. Coffee at the railway station or at the Cheese factory. Definitely worth a look if you are in the area. It does have an excellent caravan park in walking distance of the Main Street.

RNSH (Royal North Shore Hospital) use a modern version to move samples from all the wards to pathology. A vacuum system.

Whenarewethere wrote:

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RNSH (Royal North Shore Hospital) use a modern version to move samples from all the wards to pathology. A vacuum system.

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 The almost completed E D at Albury Base will have the same, suppose 30 mill or so has to be spent somewhere

rmoor wrote:

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I still have an old wooden clothes hanger with the words "Red Flag Store" printed on it.
Maybe I should mail it to Parliament House addressed to Albo.
He could us it to hang in his cupboards in some far away hotel while he is on one of his many trips.

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 You would have to work really hard to inject politics into this thread, but you managed to do it.