BIRMINGHAM, Horden, Mason & Edwards/Cincinnati Milacron (Ohio), advertising checks (9, all different types), including if a cincinnati group salesman can’t match this coin ask him for a beer (3), Offa Tornei, Mach 76 and 80, Metalworking 78, etc, various sizes and metals (cf. Tansley 505) [9]. Very fine and better £60-80

Cincinnati began as a small machine shop in the downtown area of the city of the same name in Ohio, USA, in the mid 1860s. After World War II it took over the Birmingham press manufacturers Horden, Mason & Edwards, who had been approached by the Royal Mint in the early 1960s to prepare a specialist modern coining press suitable for the quantities of UK coins needed when the country changed over to a decimal system; the Mint estimated that 150 additional presses alone would be needed (Cooper, p.231). HME designed the Coinmaster, a forged steel press with a novel rotary feed plate, which was subsequently sold to many mints the world over. In 1969 the parent company name changed to Cincinnati Milacron, reflecting the rapid development of plastics and injection moulding in the company’s markets; the name was changed again to Milacron Inc in 1998