First cash dispenser
- Who
- Barclays Bank
- What
- First
- Where
- United Kingdom (Barclays Bank,Enfield,Middlesex)
- When
- 27 June 1967
The world's first cash dispenser was installed at Barclays Bank, Enfield, Middlesex, UK, on 27 June 1967.
Invented by John Shepherd-Barron and developed by De La Rue, customers were issued paper vouchers which they fed into the machine which retained the voucher and dispensed a single £10 ($28) note. Within a year of Barclays' introduction of cash dispensers, there were machines installed in France, Sweden and Switzerland. In 1969, both the USA and Japan installed their first machines.
From Getty Images:
English actor Reg Varney (1916 - 2008) makes the first withdrawal from a Barclaycash machine, at the