Scottish Motor Traction Co Ltd : 5 day weekly ticket, 1942 : Edinburgh to Prestonpans Station
Ah, back in the days when I was a bus conductor for "SMT", known in my days as Eastern Scottish/Scottish Omnibuses, weekly tickets were often a bind to issue. This was because we had 'short range' Setright ticket machines and on long routes, such as the 16 from Edinburgh to Glasgow where 5 day, or even 6 day, tickets had a high value that required long division and entering the card ticket into the machine on several 'faces' to add up to the total! Bliss was being issued with a 'long distance' machine that were usually the preserve of OPO drivers as that could cope with one sum!
This is the older version of the weekly ticket - a credit card sized ticket that had to have both written entries as well as being 'punched' by the conductor both at the start of validity as well as on a daily basis. I can't quite make out the name on this faded one but it was issued for a five day period of return trips between Prestonpans Station and St Andrew Square in Edinburgh, the then city hub of the SMTs many services before the post-war bus station opened on an adjacent site. It was issued on 13 June 1943 and cost 4/7d - four shillings and seven old pence.
The routes east from Edinburgh out towards Musselburgh and Prestonpans were trunk routes for the SMT in those days, even when some of the route via Musselburgh was still served by Edinburgh's tramcars who had acquired running rights over the once lengthy tram route that ran alongside the Firth of Forth and that had by this time been curtailed to Levenhall. With the slow demise of Eastern Scottish, under First's ownership, "Edinburgh's" buses in the guise of Lothian are now the major operator here even if many of the routes are operated in buses of a green hue rather akin to the SMT all those years ago!
Scottish Motor Traction Co Ltd : 5 day weekly ticket, 1942 : Edinburgh to Prestonpans Station
Ah, back in the days when I was a bus conductor for "SMT", known in my days as Eastern Scottish/Scottish Omnibuses, weekly tickets were often a bind to issue. This was because we had 'short range' Setright ticket machines and on long routes, such as the 16 from Edinburgh to Glasgow where 5 day, or even 6 day, tickets had a high value that required long division and entering the card ticket into the machine on several 'faces' to add up to the total! Bliss was being issued with a 'long distance' machine that were usually the preserve of OPO drivers as that could cope with one sum!
This is the older version of the weekly ticket - a credit card sized ticket that had to have both written entries as well as being 'punched' by the conductor both at the start of validity as well as on a daily basis. I can't quite make out the name on this faded one but it was issued for a five day period of return trips between Prestonpans Station and St Andrew Square in Edinburgh, the then city hub of the SMTs many services before the post-war bus station opened on an adjacent site. It was issued on 13 June 1943 and cost 4/7d - four shillings and seven old pence.
The routes east from Edinburgh out towards Musselburgh and Prestonpans were trunk routes for the SMT in those days, even when some of the route via Musselburgh was still served by Edinburgh's tramcars who had acquired running rights over the once lengthy tram route that ran alongside the Firth of Forth and that had by this time been curtailed to Levenhall. With the slow demise of Eastern Scottish, under First's ownership, "Edinburgh's" buses in the guise of Lothian are now the major operator here even if many of the routes are operated in buses of a green hue rather akin to the SMT all those years ago!