An engineer at the company had recognised the similarity between the way the dental equipment was made and that of mechanical slot machines, he mentioned this to Len who then started to look into the possibilities of making slots and if they would sell.Īs luck would have it the timing was spot on for the switch, The Johnson act in the USA had all but destroyed the slot makers there while Australia was a booming and expanding market with no manufacturer and undersupplied with machines.
By the time he was 20, Len was in medical school with his father hoping he would follow his footsteps or even become a doctor, but it wasn't for Len, he left college in 1953 with just a high school diploma and took over the dental equipment side of his fathers business. (there is a wealth of information on the web regarding the Aristocrat company, here we will cover just the basics and look at some of their machines)Īinsworth industries were founded in 1933 by a NSW dentist to make heavy,floor-standing dental equipment, the dentist's son, Leonard was just 9 at the time.
