Since 1935, POM has been the leader in parking meter innovation.  With hundreds of thousands of electronic meters installed worldwide today, POM is best known for its dedication to quality and customer satisfaction. 

Please browse our product line, download our specifications, check out what's new, and send us feedback on how we can meet your needs.  Then make POM Advanced Parking Meter (APM) your meter of choice!

POM meters are the only ones made 100% in the USA using USA-made circuit boards and USA-made castings, and all assembly is done in the USA in an American-owned, ISO 9001:2000 quality certified facility.  SEE ARRA ACT, SECTION H.R.1-189 -- PLEASE USE YOUR STIMULUS MONEY TO HELP PRESERVE AND CREATE AMERICAN JOBS. 

The history of our parking meter line is the longest in the world.  In 1933, the merchants of Oklahoma City were trying to develop a way to increase traffic turnover in front of their stores.  Cars would park in a slot and remain there for lengthy periods of time.  Business was feeling the effects of low traffic, so the merchants asked the local newspaper editor, Carl C. Magee, to help them.  He sponsored a contest at the University of Oklahoma for engineering students to develop a timing device that would allocate set amounts of time for parking.  A grand price of $500 would be awarded to the student who could develop a working model.  This first parking meter was called the Black Maria.  After the contest, Carl Magee developed and patented his own design (see original patent #2,118,318), and with a partner started the Magee-Hale Park-O-Meter Company.   Their first production run of parking meters was installed on one side of the street in downtown Oklahoma City on July 16, 1935.  Business was so affected by the parking meters after only three days, the merchants on the other side of the street demanded that parking meters be installed in front of their businesses as well.  The birth of the parking meter and POM had occurred.  Our company name, POM, is made up of the initials of Park-O-Meter, which is the trademark for our parking meters and is known world-wide.  
(Take a moment to view our Historical Parking Photos)  Also, film courtesy of Oklahoma History Center and online article courtesy of Oklahoma Historical Society.

These early parking meters were produced at factories in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma, until late 1963 when Rockwell moved the business to the present factory in Russellville, Arkansas, in late 1963 and early 1964.  POM Incorporated was organized on October 1, 1976, to purchase Rockwell International's parking meter business and their Russellville, Arkansas, plant.

In 1981, POM parking meters came under its current ownership. Since that time POM has rapidly advanced its product line to meet the demand for parking meters in large cities. In 1992, POM began marketing and selling a fully electronic parking meter, the patented "APM" Advanced Parking Meter. No other parking meter manufacturer offered all of the APM's advanced features, such as a free-fall coin chute, a choice of solar or battery power, and a choice of LCD or high-visibility rotary signal.

In 1985 POM began a major expansion of its facilities and today has the largest plant in the world devoted to the manufacturing of digital parking meters.

Contract manufacturing is also an opportunity area for POM. In the past, significant contracts have been secured and the size of these contracts has increased in successive years.

Following continual improvement and development, POM produces a broader line of electronic parking meters and accessories than any company in the world. We are marketing our digital parking meters throughout the world and are expanding our export business. We are producing parking meters using coins of many nations, with legends in various languages as required for foreign countries. Payment methods for our meters now include coins, tokens, smart cards, and now credit cards and cell phone.

POM has been recognized by the U.S. Senate for making major strides in productivity improvement. POM has received the prestigious "E Award" and subsequent "E-Star" award from the President of the United States for Excellence in Exporting.  Our facliity is ISO 9001:2000 quality certified, and we are today the only producer of American-made parking meters.