LA Bantam - Book Vending Machines Part III

Before continuing to look at the question of LA Bantam and book vending I'll briefly discuss the mid century book vending machines that did exist. The first was the "Book-o-Mat".

The second was developed by Dadson Industries, Inc. Dadson's vender (name the industry uses for vending machines) was first used in a NY subway in December 1946 to sell paperbacks published by New York's Pocket Books. In January 1947 a Billboard article quotes a Pocket Book executive as saying Dadson has no right to sell the books. He goes on to say only Automatic with their Book-o-Mat is under contract to sell Pocket Books. There is a picture in the May 1947 Popular Mechanics of a machine which is not named but meets the description of the Dadson.

Popular Mechanics May 1947, page 90