A parking meter is a device used to collect money in exchange for the right to park an automobile etc. in a particular place for a limited amount of time. By inserting coins (or credit card, smart money, etc...) into a slot, and turning a handle (or pressing a key...), a timer is set within the meter. A dial or display on the meter indicates how much time is remaining.
Parking meters are usually relatively small boxes attached to the top of a sturdy metal pole. They are exposed to the elements and to vandals so protection of the device and its cash contents is a priority.
Parking meters are usually seen along the curb of a street, but are sometimes used within parking garages as well. The world's first installed parking meter was in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on July 16, 1935. They were invented by Carl Magee.
Every workday for the past seven years, Paul R. Arsenault made his rounds of Boston's 7,200 parkingmeters in a fresh blue uniform, carrying with him a special key and the responsibility for fixing his share of the hundreds of meters across the city that are jammed or broken.
Employees who collect quarters from meters have a key to the lower portion of the meter head, which unlocks a compartment that holds a sealed green plastic canister.
To do that, he was to open the meters, remove any objects blocking the chutes, report what he'd found to the department, and put the stray quarters back in.
Since the first parkingmeter was installed in Oklahoma City on July 16, 1935, POM parkingmeters have been made in the USA and installed all over the globe.
These early parkingmeters were produced at factories in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma, until late 1963 when Rockwell moved the business to the present POM factory in late 1963 and early 1964.
We are producing parkingmeters using coins of many nations, with legends in various languages as required for foreign countries.
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