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bus tickets

:angel: ...and if all the numbers added up to 21 it was even luckier and that was kept too, or given to the one you loved best.

Chris :angel:
 
Another reason to keep them was if the numbers were the same both ways :-\ eg 34543..... 29692 if you see what I mean?
 
:angel: Rod my son has a phone number just like that, numbers the same both ways ... Just great for his 'OLD'S ' to remember :2funny:

Chris :angel:
 
What was the lowest Telephone number you ever had or can remember and did anyone have a Bus ticket with 111111 or 444444 etc ;)
 
And here are some pre-war tram tickets tram tickets I took out of the panelling of a tram just before it was broken up in Miller Street in 1950.
Peter
 
Peter it was Half penny for my daily Bus ride to school each day on the 5a or 7 Bus thanks for the memory O0
 
The four figure numbers on the tickets interested me, my father always looked for his old regimental number on any ticket he bought, and said he'd never got anywhere near it, his number was 8769.
 
I would never have thought of saving tram tickets, from a tram that was being broken up, like you did Peter. What great fore-sight, in keeping them for us to look at again over 50 years later. BazzM
 
I can just about remember the set up for the conductor issuing those tickets before the
automated type ticket machines were worn by them. The tickets were clipped into a rack not too sure how many denominations on the rack though. You asked for whatever
ride you wanted and paid your money which was in a leather bag worn across the conductors body and where he or she had to make change if you didn't have the correct amount. I remember thinking that I had never seen that amount of coin money as those bags usually had in them. Great to see those larger paper tickets again Peter....you are a good collector
of transport memorabilia.
 
the only memorrabilia of transport i have managed to collect and save after all these years his the wife , she drives me around the country and the bend , ,, but i would trade her for all the tea in china ,, ah,, well, ?. astonian ,;;;;
 
Does anyone remember how we used to collect
the bus ticket's and make them into concertino's??
the wife just reminded me
 
I can remember making concertinas with them I also remember that rolls were joined together with a brown sticky label which had a word on them cannot remember the word though,I'm sure someone can.
Colin
 
the ticket holder was about twelve to fourteen inches the tickets were held in by a spring arrangement the tickets were punched by a machine affixed to the clippie (conductor/conductress) the ticket was fed into the machine at a slot at the bottom then the lever was operated which punched a hole in to ticket, the hole was at what ever stage the bus was at the time, the clippie had to set the stage manually the ticket machine made a ringing noise at every punched ticket, denominations were different colours. All the clippies tickets, money bags, ticket holder and ticket machine fitted into a square tin black box all monies had to be counted and separated into different coloured bags, filled bags also went into the black box which then was locked into a compartment by the stairs.
 
John I remember the Bus Conductor counting his or Her money just before they changed shifts at the back of the Bus, you couldn't do it now. No way ???
 
here is my Mom with her clippie uniform on spot the air raid shelter to the left
by the I am the boy with blond hair  :2funny:
 
Thats what I call a great photo John you should have put that on the blitz page as the shelters are comming up
 
Dennis were they 6d or 7d return I'm thinking 1951 and White when i Started my first job :)
 
Alf,
I'm talking about 1943,
and i'm pretty sure the 6d
workmans return was orange
as was the childrens halfpenny
 
Considering a number of my family were on the buses you would think i should have a whole host of bus tickets and memorabillia. Not a scrap. Apart from my grandads safety medals and photo's from the evening mail of his retirement as the longest serving bus driver. [Would love to upload them but scanner is shot].

My son drove me nuts in the 70's. He decided to collect bus tickets but they were all the same. The automated ones all from the 27 route. He was only five. Oh how he cried when i threw out the eight carrier bags full. ;D
 
You did Sir and did I tell you that I worked for the Birmingham City Transport from 1958 till 1861 till I joined White Collar Brigade till I retired in 1993, no I'm not that old Dennis. :)
 
Alf, Did you go back in age? did you drive a stage coach when you retered? :uglystupid2: :uglystupid2:
 
Alf you must be about minus 39 in age then, well done you are part of scientific history :2funny: :2funny:
:flower: :cat:
 
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