ACRES OF TRAM TICKETS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 681, 27 June 1914, Page 3

ACRES OF TRAM TICKETS.

The invention of the ticket-prißtins machine by Thomas Edmondson, a railway-clerk on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, in 1840, led to the adoption of cardboard tickets,) consecutively numbered, and cut to standard size—2J inches by It Inches. The old Manchester and Leeds, line first tried them in 1845. *, The '•'case," as the receptacle for railway tickets! inside ,» bookingoffice is termed, consists of rows an* rows of perpendicular partitions, or '»tubes," the exact width of a ticket, and from the bottom of each '•'tube'" the tickets are drawn in strict rotation. Some for out-of-the-way places arc rarely asked for, a small supply lasting for weeks; whilst othars come from the ticket-printers 50,000 at a time. Acres of plain and coloured card! board are used yearly in ticket-mak-ing. By a system of shears and graduated rollers the cardboard is prsrared in strips or ribbons of enormous length, and passes through the press—not rnlike a sweetmeat machlnp—which automatically numbers consecutively, and cuts to a standard size, turning out the finished tickets in a -constant stream, or conlcmning, by tha loijd ringing of an alarm-bell, any that may have: become imperfectly printed, or misshapen, in their passage through tbe> press. . / *