![]() ![]() ![]() I had to ask my local garage to cash my cheque." However, one Saturday I was one minute late at my bank and it was closed. I remember back in 1965 that I would always take money out of my bank on a Saturday morning. Marking the 40th anniversary, the inventor said, "I am delighted that the cash machine is still going strong. In 2005, Shepherd-Barron was awarded the OBE for his services to banking 'as inventor of the automatic cash dispenser.' His wife persuaded him to use a four-digit PIN number rather than six because she thought it would be easier to remember. It was a Scottish inventor, John Shepherd-Barron, who realised the concept of a self-service machine that could be used 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to withdraw cash from one's own bank account. Despite initial problems with vandalism, the machines proved popular and became a roaring success. Enfield's was the first of six pilot machines trialled by Barclays (the others were in Hove, Ipswich, Luton, Peterborough and Southend) and required the user to have a PIN number and a special paper voucher, which was inserted into the machine in return for a £10 note. On June 27 1967, Reg Varney of 'On the Buses' fame became the first person to use a cash machine outside the Barclays Bank on Enfield High Street. ![]()
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