In message , John Rowland
writes

"Richard J." wrote in message
...
Marratxi wrote:

London bus tickets from the 40's and 50's - any market for these ?

I was always amazed at the effort
that must have gone into printing different tickets
for every route listing the fare stages, with a
different colour card for every fare, and each one
with a unique serial number.

I would imagine that all of the different tickets of a particular colour
were printed by a single plate on a huge card, and after a stack of huge
cards had been printed, they were then cut into stacks of tickets.

Not sure about bus tickets, but Edmondson-style train tickets were all
printed on individual ticket blanks fed from a hopper. The reason being
the need to number each ticket individually as it is printed in order to
prevent fraud. There's a picture of the original Edmondson ticket press
at ...

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/history...cky/thomas.htm

The Waterlow process was similar, although it could use several
different colours of ink simultaneously.

--
Paul Terry