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The tickets are:-
Top row, left to right:-
2d blue Hants and Dorset Bell Punch type ticket - punched for a passenger boarding at fare stage 27.
2 1/2d pink Hants and Dorset Bell Punch type ticket - showing the advert on the reverse side for 'Huntsman Ales' ( the Dorchester Brewery of Eldridge Pope.)
4d brown Hants and Dorset Bell Punch type ticket - punched for a passenger boarding at fare stage 3. This is over-printed BCT. Within the area of the Bournemouth Corporation Transport (originally to 'protect' the tram services) these tickets would be issued on H & D buses, so that a separate account could be kept of the fares taken for journeys wholly within the Corporation area. H&D then paid the money received from these tickets 'less working expenses' to BCT. The name of the printers (Bell Punch Co Ltd, London) appears on the lower edge. - the reverse also has the Huntsman Ales advert.
Bottom row, left to right:-
12/6d green Hants and Dorset 'Day Out' ticket - the fare paid was printed by the (then) normal ticket printing machine (as for ticket on right), and then punched for each subsequent journey made during the day. (The equivalent of the 'Explorer' tickets offered by some of today's bus companies)
2/9d yellow Hants and Dorset 5 day ticket - fare printed ( at lower edge) on issue on Monday, and cancelled on the return journey that day at the other end. The outward and return journeys for the rest of the week were cancelled by punching a hole in the marked spaces along the edge.. They were intended for 'work-people' to and from place of work each day, and could only be bought on Mondays or Tuesdays, and only available for the 'week of issue'.
1/- buff Hants and Dorset machine printed tickets ( two) . This from the 1950s onwards became the usual H&D ticket, printed by a Setright Speed machine, which could print tickets up to 19/11d in value - selected by the 'drums' on the top. The machine kept a register of the total value of tickets sold, which the conductor would enter on a sheet (the Waybill)at specified points in the journey - from which passenger statistics could be calculated. The ticket prints the fare, in shillings and pence, the fare stage at which passenger boarded (10 in this case), the date and machine number (Sept 2, 721), the ticket serial numbers ( 979 and 980) and the class of ticket (Single, Return, Child, Dog or Pushchair --- etc). These tickets were printed from a roll of paper below the 'working part' of the machine -- but there was a slot in the front to print the information such as the other two tickets on this row, and a 'cancelling punch' fitted to the top.
(The two pictures above and text is by courtesy of Peter Delaney) |
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