Innovators in Roulette


made redundant from his previous role as the Managing Director for an iron and non-ferrous foundry that specialised in tool-making and precision engineering. Over 20 years later, the Kent company continues to produce innovative live, electronic and automatic roulette wheels along with LCD displays and data analysis systems while also offering world-class gaming chips for the live gaming market.


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What was it about roulette wheels that led your father to found Cammegh Limited?


My father was made redundant in 1987 and subsequently decided to leave the world of precision engineering in order to purchase and manage a tea shop with my mother in Rye. However, my father soon discovered that he needed a bigger challenge and sold this business about 15 months later in order to start working as the Sales Director for an engineering company that he had known for many years. He subsequently met Martin Williams, then of


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idely regarded as the manufacturer of some of the world’s finest roulette wheels, Cammegh Limited was established in 1989 after Bill Cammegh was


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Alan Campbell talks to Andrew Cammegh, sales and marketing director, about the origins of the family company, where it is now and what the future holds.


Technical Casino Supplies Limited, by chance and was introduced to a roulette wheel. After learning that Technical Casino Supplies weren’t offering their own roulette wheels, he suggested that he could manufacture a product for them to sell. This proposition was accepted and saw my father build two wheels from scratch in about eight weeks from a blank piece of paper. He then took his creations to London for ATEI, which at that time was held at Olympia, and was successful in winning an order for a further 20 wheels.


Why do you believe that these first roulette wheels were so successful?


My father produced his first pair of wheels with innovation very much in mind and in evidence. If anyone else was going to manufacture a roulette wheel, the finished product would, perhaps, resemble something that they had seen before. But, our first roulette wheels were built featuring curved pockets in order to increase the ball scatter, which was very difficult to do while keeping the shape uniform. My father was able to draw on his many years of precision engineering training and know-how to create these two extremely novel but precision engineered interpretations of a traditional roulette wheel, one of which we have in our ‘museum’.


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