TWO cash machines in Waltham Forest are now giving customers the option of reading on-screen prompts in Cockney rhyming slang.

From today, the machines at Murco Service Station, in Hatch Lane, Chingford, and at 24 High Street, Walthamstow, will allow customers to read instructions in English or Cockney.

Customers choosing the slang option will be asked for their Huckleberry Finn (PIN), will be able to select sausage and mash (cash) amounts such as a speckled hen (£10) and will contact the rattle and tank (bank) for approval.

Ron Delnevo, Bank Machine managing director, said: “Through cockney ATMS, Bank Machine is celebrating the creativity and comedy manifest within this distinctly London dialect, hopefully ensuring that this much loved lingo doesn’t pass into obscurity.”

As well as the two Cockney ATMs in Waltham Forest, there are also machines in Tower Hamlets and Barnet.

The Cockney option will be available at all the machines for three months.