World's first cash point. Fifty years ago today

Oddly enough, I discovered that Reg Varney had participated in this event after I followed a semi-random series of links on Wikipedia that led to his page a week or so ago.


(I'm going to guess that he was not chosen because, unlike human ones, there may very well have been a bus within the electromechanical cashier....)
 
I remember using early Barclays cash machines a few years after that. They didn't have a screen as such but instead the prompts and messages were behind glass on a long band of rubber or some such material that spun back and forth to give you the appropriate prompt or message.
 
I remember using early Barclays cash machines a few years after that. They didn't have a screen as such but instead the prompts and messages were behind glass on a long band of rubber or some such material that spun back and forth to give you the appropriate prompt or message.
I remember one of thoe at the Southampton University branch of NatWest in the late 1970s.
 
Until about 1990 the card for the cash machine was separate from the cheque guarantee card (for £50). Then they merged them, which was progress. When did cheque guarantee cards disappear? Late 90s?
 

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