“TICK OR NO TICK.”
AN AUTOMATIC PROCESS. EXPERIMENT IN DEPARTMENTAL STORE. ’United Press- Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) —United Service). Received 10.5 a.rn. to-dav. LONDON, Nov. 20. The “Daily Mail” states: “Tick or no tick” will literally be the answer of the machine with which a leading London department store is experimenting. It will decide automatically whether a customer is entitled t.o credit. The salesgirl o.perates a key which is invisible and inaudible to the customer, spelling out the customer’s name and the. cost of the intended purchase. If she hears an immediate mechanical tick transmitted from the nerve centre of the apparatus in the office, she is aware that “tick” in a monetary sense can be extended. 1 If no tick comes from the office, there is no “tick” 'to the customer.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 November 1928, Page 5
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