Old tobacco tins.
A further part of vct's history lesson.
It wasn't just any old tobacco tins that were used to collect subs at branch level. The had to be the larger Old Holborn tins, as the UK's currency in those days included pennies that were so large and heavy that only the biggest tins would do.
However, Old Holborn was a relatively expensive tobacco, so branches had to duck, dive and deal in order to get enough tins of Old Holborn size...............and no matter what the branch Sec did, those tins grew legs and disappeared at an amazing rate..............