- credit
- George Campbell — Design
- credit
- Lyn Durant — Design
- ipdb.corporate_entity_name
- C. & D. Manufacturing Company
- ipdb_id
- 5725
- ipdb.image_urls
- ["https://www.ipdb.org/images/5725/image-1.jpg","https://www.ipdb.org/images/5725/image-2.jpg"]
- ipdb.notable_features
- Pushing a coin in the coin slide lifts all balls to the playfield, visible to the player in a lane that feeds the ball shooter, eliminating the ball lift. Automatically totaled the score on a revolving drum.
- ipdb.notes
- The score totalizer on this game was invented by Lyn Durant, for which a patent was applied May 18, 1933. According to the Encyclopedia of Pinball Volume 1, Durant introduced the game in May, for which partner George Campbell had provided the funding, and the intent was to sell the idea to a large manufacturer in Chicago then split the royalties. This was unsuccessful, so they decided to make the game themselves, in Agawam, as C.& D. Manufacturing Company. Their ads indicate production took place by June 1933, so that is the date we list, as it seems likely that the game Durant brought to Chicago in May was a prototype.
The name of this manufacturer was derived from the last names of the owners, George H. Campbell and Lyndon A. Durant.
In October 1933 the company made an improved version of this game, adding a second totalizer, and changing the company name around this same time. See Lone Eagle Mfg. Co.'s 1933 'Lone Eagle'. Three years later, Durant�s invention would finally make it to Chicago, as an electrified version used on Shyvers (Chicago)'s 1936 'Round 'n' Round', for which he would share in the credit.
- month
- 6
- player_count
- 1
- technology_generation
- pure-mechanical
- year
- 1933