Tickets please!
A rack of Bell Punch tickets on display at the Greater Manchester Museum of Transport. The Bell Punch company first began supplying London General Omnibus Company and municipal tramway operators during the 1890s with ticketing machines. The Bell Punch was a simple device carried by the conductor, which punched a hole in the appropriate ticket issued from the rack to the fare-paying passenger. The machine made a pleasing ‘ting’ sound in the process. More modern ticket-issuing equipment displaced the Bell Punch system in later years, although it survived with London Transport into the 1950s.
The old tickets in this view were once issued by the Leicestershire-based independent bus operator, Gibson Brothers of Barlestone. That company was taken over by Leicester City Transport in 1980, which retained the Gibson identity for several more years.
Tickets please!
A rack of Bell Punch tickets on display at the Greater Manchester Museum of Transport. The Bell Punch company first began supplying London General Omnibus Company and municipal tramway operators during the 1890s with ticketing machines. The Bell Punch was a simple device carried by the conductor, which punched a hole in the appropriate ticket issued from the rack to the fare-paying passenger. The machine made a pleasing ‘ting’ sound in the process. More modern ticket-issuing equipment displaced the Bell Punch system in later years, although it survived with London Transport into the 1950s.
The old tickets in this view were once issued by the Leicestershire-based independent bus operator, Gibson Brothers of Barlestone. That company was taken over by Leicester City Transport in 1980, which retained the Gibson identity for several more years.