Derby Winner

Derby Winner was produced by Western Products, Incorporated in August 1941, near the end of the company's short life - Western Products operated only from 1938 to 1941. It is a single-player electro-mechanical game from the final months before America's entry into World War II brought coin machine production largely to a halt.

Very little is documented about Derby Winner: the surviving record confirms its manufacturer, date, and electro-mechanical construction, but not its features, theme, or designer. Its name suggests a horse racing subject, in keeping with Western Products' other racing-titled games of the period, though this is not confirmed.

As one of the last machines from a short-lived pre-war manufacturer, Derby Winner offers a small window into the coin machine industry of 1941, and its scarcity of documentation makes it a subject of curiosity for collectors and historians of vintage pin games.