Majorette
About This Machine
The Majorette, manufactured by V. P. Distributing Company in 1944, is a wartime conversion of Genco's 1940 'Band Wagon.' Like many EM machines from this period of material shortages, existing cabinets were often relabeled and reworked rather than built from scratch, which is how Majorette came to be.
As a flipperless machine, gameplay relied on skillful plunging and gravity to route the ball toward scoring targets and holes rather than on flipper control, typical of pre-1947 pinball design. Players used strategic shot placement and timing rather than active ball control to accumulate points.
Little further documentation survives about the Majorette beyond its manufacturing details and its origin as a converted 'Band Wagon' cabinet, leaving much about its specific rules and playfield layout open to further research by collectors and historians of early pinball.