Birmingham Mint presses and six planchet presses for making blanks from strip metal. These were installed at the Bath Street works, and in that year trade tokens were struck for use in Australia. In 1851 coins were struck for Chile using the letter "H" as a mintmark. The same year copper planchets were made for the Royal Mint to make into pennies, halfpennies, farthings, half-farthings and quarter-farthings. In 1852 the Mint won a contract to produce a new series of coins for France. In this the Mint pioneered the minting of bronze. Ralph Heaton III (son of Ralph II) took key workers
Blankety Blanks (Australian game show) Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. Indeed, the "Blankety Blanks" set looked almost identical to its American counterpart. The series also used a similarly stylised logo. One of the conditions Kennedy requested when he started "Blankety Blanks" was the right to choose the members of the panel. If they worked well they would be retained, but if they didn't, they wouldn't be asked back. The first episode aired on TEN-10 Sydney on Monday, 24 January 1977 at 7:30pm, where it was telecast Monday to Friday. After six weeks of broadcasting at 7:30pm the show was moved into the 7pm slot, where