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Old March 2nd 05, 02:23 PM posted to uk.local.london,uk.transport.london
Robin Mayes Robin Mayes is offline
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Default Automatic ticket machine, 1921

An early version of the rapid printer - in use until the early 1990s when
the UTS machines were introduced.


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Browsing through the excellent photographs on
http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/

However, there's one that has flummoxed me:
http://snipurl.com/autotick

Errrm, what's "automatic ticket machine"y about that? :-))


Automatic by the standards of 1921.

An improvement on the clerk having a rack of tickets of different prices
from which he selected the one the passenger needed. Similarly, bus
conductors carried masses of separate tickets (even much later than the
1920s).