. Electric railway journal . achines are available to the experienced passenger forthe purchase of Id. and 2d. tickets. The Id. machinecan issue up to fifteen tickets a minute. Machines forissuing 3d. tickets were not a mechanical success. Thetotal percentage of tickets sold via slot machines isnot readily determined, but at some stations the ratiois as high as 40 per cent. Several efforts in the wayof a ticket-printing machine have been tried but with-out success as the machines &re not reliable or theprinting sufficiently clear. It is a matter for admira-tion that the ticket sellers can hand
. Electric railway journal . achines are available to the experienced passenger forthe purchase of Id. and 2d. tickets. The Id. machinecan issue up to fifteen tickets a minute. Machines forissuing 3d. tickets were not a mechanical success. Thetotal percentage of tickets sold via slot machines isnot readily determined, but at some stations the ratiois as high as 40 per cent. Several efforts in the wayof a ticket-printing machine have been tried but with-out success as the machines &re not reliable or theprinting sufficiently clear. It is a matter for admira-tion that the ticket sellers can handle such a varietyof fares and tickets at the rate of twelve to fifteenper minute, although this is hardly one-half of thespeed readily attained with single fare tickets. In addition to the full-price tickets illustrated, aworkmans two-part or round-trip ticket is shown; alsoa two-part ticket used for a single trip emanating,in this case, on an underground line and ending on a February 7, 1920 Electric Railway Journal 283. 137 ■.■<i O m ilH ^37 9 SB I w 5g 1^ 111= ail ^■0 0. 1^ !■ jMStMB ^p HkS^^- 980 ^
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