My Lamson Cash Carriers Pictures
I have acquired several Lamson items including:
- A working wire carrier system (wooden cup on pulley shown below).
- A complete working motorized Cable Cash Carrier System (silver carrier below). (This was set up in my previous home)
- A complete basket carrier system, but I have no place to set it up (need high ceiling).
Lamson cable car
Lamson Carriers – would have carried money or documents or receipts
Historic info on Lamson Carriers and Pneumatic Tube Systems in Use
The following is from a Lamson sales brochure dated 1945.
In 1880, to speed the flow of cash in his small notion store in Lowell, Massachusetts, William S. Lamson invented a carrier system. He sawed croquet balls in two, hollowed them out, and rolled them in inclined wooden troughs from the sales counter to the cashiers desk… Such was the birth of the world-wide carrier, conveyor and pneumatic tube service which bears the name “Lamson.”
Below are Photos of Lamson Systems in their original settings
in
Boston Traveler, Post Office, Jordan Marsh, CF Hovey,
Besse Carpenter, SS Pierce
Boston, Worcester, Brookline, Springfield – Massachusetts
Banton Co., Manchester, NH
Mercantile Co., Memphis, TN
Pacific States Ticket Carrier
Click to go to PHOTO Sets:
Post Office, City Hall, Watch Works
Chicago and Elgin, IL
See Photos of Historic Lamsons Systems in the
Bank of Montreal, National City Bank,
Post Office, Southern Pacific, NY Times
New York
United Cigar Store, NY, Flat Iron Bldg – Lamson System
PJ Hallahan, Philly Post Office, Toronto Post Office
Philadelphia & Toronto
St Louis Post Office, Law Library
St Louis Pneumatic Carriers Historical Photos
St Louis, MO
Pacific States Operating Room, Tacoma, WA
If you have pictures of a system, please let me know. I’d love to see them
and I might link this site to them.
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Hi,
Not sure if in the right place, however, I have a Lamson Pneumatic Tube Machine which I am interested in selling but not sure how to go about it or where to look. Is there any direction someone to give me please. FYI it was used in a department store in its former life.
Hello, thank you for sharing this information. Might you send me photos of what you have from the Lamson system? Thank you.
I have a lamson trolly system looking to sell it . 7578228538 I live in Elizabeth city nc it came out of the historical chessions building in town . All complete .
Just saw your “thought” on your Lamson trolly system. Has it sold yet? If not, what are you asking for it and can you send pics?
Hi , I came across a old Lamson trolley item, It is in mint condition and is on a rail between to decorative brass poles , it looks as if it may be a sales type display ,is there a market for this and what value would be on an item as this , I would like to resell , the display is about 24″ high and maybe 30″ and trolley hangs on a short rail, between two well finished polished brass poles with finial on each and is mounted on a wooden finished base , very fanciful . Thank you , Mark Herzberg ,