These cases have no application to tickets issued by automatic machines. The offer is made when the machine is held out as being ready to accept money. The contract is complete when the customer puts money in the slot. The terms of the offer are those placed near the machine, sufficiently brought to the customer's attention. In this case the sign saying that the car was parked at the owners risk.
Further conditions appearing on the ticket have no effect.
If however the machine is a ticket person in disguise, the older cases should be considered. In this case sufficient notice was not given of these conditions. Even on the older authorities, the defendant then fails. Megaw LJ Reserved judgment on the precise time when the contract was concluded. Analysing the case in terms of the older authorities, Megaw agreed with Denning that the defendant's had not sufficiently drawn the exempting condition to the plaintiff's attention.