Scram

Scram is a pure mechanical (PM) single-player pinball machine from Major Automatics Co. of the United Kingdom, marked "'Major' Product" at the bottom of the playfield and dated to circa the 1930s. It operates on the old English penny (a 1-inch diameter coin) and awards players ten balls per game — nine silver and one gold — adding a small visual flourish to each round.

The cabinet has no access doors other than the front coin door, and its playfield fixtures are nickel-plated. Scram's playfield layout closely resembles PAMCO's 1935 game 'Synchro,' reflecting a broader pattern among British pinball manufacturers of this era, who were relatively few in number and reportedly known for closely copying American designs. UK pinball production is reported to have ceased in 1939 due to the outbreak of World War II.

Little further documentation survives about Scram's designer or original marketing, but as a rare example of pre-war British pinball manufacturing — cut short by the war — it offers a window into a lesser-known corner of the hobby's early international history.