Tickets in rolls, books or pads : catalogue : Alfred Williamson Ltd. : North Mill Ticket Works : Ashton-Under-Lyne, Lancashire : nd [c.1937] : booking tickets for motor coach tours

To those of us of a 'certain age' the name Williamson of Ashton used to be seen on a regular basis - on the bottom edge of our bus tickets. The Ashton-Under-Lyne based printers had specialised in tickets for transport, entrance and, in the original meaning of the word for price tags, since been founded in 1835. For many years various corporation transport departments and private operators used Williamson's for ticket stock as well as the machines they branched out into. The latter included machines for enterainment venues such as cinemas and greyhound racing tracks. In many ways their output somewhat echoed the larger Bell Punch Company who had, in Victorian days, somewhat cornered the market for pre-printed tickets allied to a cancelling and totaliser punch machine and this catalogue contains Williamson's version of this that was possibly introduced after the Bell Punch patents lapsed?

fictitious

In later years as well as the pre-printed tickets seen here, Willaimson's made ticket rolls to fit other types of hand held machines such as the Bell Punch Ultimate. Undated this catalagie has a feel of the pre-WW2 era and contains a couple of inset slips one of which is dated to 1937. The company was finally wound up in 1985.

 

Another series of examples showing the variety of motor coach and excursion tickets available. This includes books of tickets allowing for the use of duplicating paper between copies. These are again, I think, fictictious companies.

 

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