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NEWPORT. F. Burton (drapers), 132 High Street. "Burton's new drapery store is now open, High Street and Holyrood Street, Newport... Premises arranged in departments with pneumatic and overhead cash railways by Lamson Store Service Co." Isle of Wight County Press, 16 Mar. 1907, p. 7
• "Newport's new drapery store is now open... The latest American labour-saving contrivances for making change, by the Lamson Store Service Company, Ltd. These include overhead cash railways and the new pneumatic compressed air tube system (the only one in the Island). Ibid., 15 June 1907, p. 7

RYDE. Hills, High Street. "The mighty Hills Stores, where kids like me stared at the ceiling transfixed as pouches of cash whizzed from counter to cash desk and back again via an intricate network of pulleys and wires." Isle of Wight County Press, 16 Mar. 2012

SHANKLIN. Baileys, High Street. "What I liked about Bailey's in Shanklin was the machinery used in paying for, say, the pair of socks being purchased for me. The money was handed over and wraped in an invoice, placed in a cylindrical container, and whizzed to the cashier along overhead wires, then, after a pause for reckoning, the projectile containing the receipt and change came rocketing back." Anthony Bailey.

VENTNOR. Sharps, High Street. Cash carrier. Mick Perkins in posting to Facebook

indicates systems which are still there (as far as I know) though they may not be working.