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cash’n’flash noun

Pay-and-display car park

Collector

Mark – 1980s
Mark Iliff – owner

Notes

Between the era of car park attendants and the era of payment by mobile phone there were ~50 years when to park you had to have the right change¹. You’d feed it into a machine which would print a receipt that you displayed in your windscreen.

¹A collection of coins² that could be combined to the value of the parking fee

²Metal tokens with monetary value

Submitted: 03/03/2021 by Mark ● Last updated: 02/01/2022 12:52 by Mark

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