We are here today to celebrate an important birthday. Something known to, and used by, the vast majority of the UK adult population, and which certainly lives up to the motto on its blue plaque “lives made much easier”. On 27 June 1967, fifty years ago almost to the day, the world’s first cash dispenser was installed in Enfield, North London. In 1972 following innovation from the cash industry, the machines were linked to a central system enabling the ‘on line’ cash withdrawals on which so many of us now rely.
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