As a Professional Firefighter ' Lieutenant' now 'Retired', I work twenty-four hour shifts, which has given me plenty of time to devote to restoring and repairing antique slot machines. My name is Richard Bright and I have been restoring antique slot machines for over 35 years, you could say I have repaired or restored at least 500 antique slot machines in my lifetime. Welcome to Bright's Antique Slot Machine Restorations! The cost to these 7 clever little monkeys to perform is £1.Bright's Antique Slot Machine Restorations This amazing group of performing Copacabana monkeys are now entertaining visitors at Miniature Worlds tourist attraction in Hoveton. You may well recognise Maria and Michael as they quite often appear on Salvage Hunters the Restorers along with Drew Pritchard. The Bimbo Box has gone through a complete restoration but keeping as much of its original charm as possible, two of the monkeys internal mechanisms had failed so they packed their bags with the other 5 monkeys and went to Scotland to be repaired by the famous House of Automata run by Maria and Michael Start who carried out all the repairs and cleaned the others so they now look superb again. This very machine was delivered new to the Thomas amusement arcade in Hunstanton and remained in their ownership until Peter Williamson fought off stiff competition at auction in 2021 from collectors in Holland, Germany and even America to keep this much loved machine here in Norfolk.

This amazing, much sort after and very rare machine is called a Bimbo Box which was made in 1958 by UTA Elektroakustik of Stuttgart.

Peter Williamson of the “Williamsons original end of the Pier penny arcades” based here in Norfolk restores and operates vintage amusement machines from the 1920s up to the 1970s for tourists and locals alike to enjoy. For the first time in decades performing monkeys return to Norfolk,īut not real ones that is.

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