Rockingham

The Rockingham, manufactured by Bell Products Company of Chicago in January 1944, is a World War II-era one-ball horserace payout machine housed in a console cabinet. It is a wartime conversion built from parts of earlier Bally machines - 'Grandstand' (1938) and 'Grand National' (1939), along with one or both versions of Bally's 'Pace Maker' (1938/1939).

As a one-ball payout game with a Horse Racing theme, the Rockingham reflects a common wartime practice: with metal and new manufacturing severely restricted during World War II, companies like Bell Products repurposed earlier machines into 'new' games for continued sale. The earliest known advertisements for the Rockingham date to January 1944.

Little further documentation survives about this scarce wartime conversion, making it a curious footnote in the history of horserace-themed payout pinball.