wandering specimen
When I saw this for sale on eBay in late March, I just had to have it but to do that, I had to switch to my decoy account (which I use to buy things from sellers who have blocked me on my main account) to buy it and the next ticket. However, it's only this week that I finally got round to scanning it in. Bought for £4.83 from bandibacs54, a seller whose listing I attempted to correct, this is a WanderBus ticket from 1980.
Introduced in 1978, this was a ticket that you could use all over the National Bus Company network and, for just £2.97 a day (that's eirther £14.55 or £13.40 in today's money if you went back to 1981 and 1982 respectively), once you showed this to the conductor or driver/conductor, you could go as far as you wished but there were exceptions so this was like the dayrider of its day.
However, this one is just a specimen, hence the title and one of ten specimen tickets I bought from this seller so far this year. Those who know me and know me well think I'm daft for paying such prices (even my own mum!) but I'm preserving transport history.
wandering specimen
When I saw this for sale on eBay in late March, I just had to have it but to do that, I had to switch to my decoy account (which I use to buy things from sellers who have blocked me on my main account) to buy it and the next ticket. However, it's only this week that I finally got round to scanning it in. Bought for £4.83 from bandibacs54, a seller whose listing I attempted to correct, this is a WanderBus ticket from 1980.
Introduced in 1978, this was a ticket that you could use all over the National Bus Company network and, for just £2.97 a day (that's eirther £14.55 or £13.40 in today's money if you went back to 1981 and 1982 respectively), once you showed this to the conductor or driver/conductor, you could go as far as you wished but there were exceptions so this was like the dayrider of its day.
However, this one is just a specimen, hence the title and one of ten specimen tickets I bought from this seller so far this year. Those who know me and know me well think I'm daft for paying such prices (even my own mum!) but I'm preserving transport history.