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Another departure from this world and from our industry...Roy Howell was someone who had a real impact on the development of the UK coin machine industry in general, and the AWP (Category C) in particular over the years.

His untimely death yesterday – especially for someone so full of vitality – comes as a shock to the business, even to those connected to it only in the 2000s.

But Roy goes back much further. I first met him in the early 1970s when he joined his father’s machine operating business in Wolverhampton (Temple Street, as I recall).

Peter Howell was a big, confident, extrovert who built up a successful operation to the pitch where he could support a manufacturing business.

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