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I'm not so sure of my facts with these non-Setright tickets, and am without experience of other systems ...apart from the Wayfarer system we used during my latter days with what had become B ...B ...Ba ...I can hardly bring myself to type the name... Badgerline! There, I've done it. I feel soiled though. The well-printed, vari-coloured square tickets along the top are very pleasing. Elsewhere the impression is of a decline in quality. Was it inflation or decimalisation that led to London Transport tickets being issued in two parts? ...the example illustrated being, I am fairly certain, one 16p ticket rather than two separate 8p tickets. The ticket which illustrates the two tendered coins by some sort of frottage method ...bloody silly idea I always thought... came from "Cardiff buses" who must have thought it very modern and democratic to use such a banausic title. Elsewhere we mostly have scrappy, ill-printed, flimsy little squares of plain paper, more like till receipts from a chip shop than the emblem of a contract between issuer and holder bestowing legal status and conferring certain entitlements deriving from governmental legislation. S. M. S. had me scratching my head, but fortunately the date is still visible and on 13th August 1977 I was at Pembroke Dock ...so it must be Silcox Motor Services. C. C. T. still has me puzzled though, and the date is no help. I think the form So-and-So Corporation Transport was entirely defunct by 1977, but ticket machines must have continued to show the old style. Colchester? Cardiff? Chesterfield?
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I'm not so sure of my facts with these non-Setright tickets, and am without experience of other systems ...apart from the Wayfarer system we used during my latter days with what had become B ...B ...Ba ...I can hardly bring myself to type the name... Badgerline! There, I've done it. I feel soiled though. The well-printed, vari-coloured square tickets along the top are very pleasing. Elsewhere the impression is of a decline in quality. Was it inflation or decimalisation that led to London Transport tickets being issued in two parts? ...the example illustrated being, I am fairly certain, one 16p ticket rather than two separate 8p tickets. The ticket which illustrates the two tendered coins by some sort of frottage method ...bloody silly idea I always thought... came from "Cardiff buses" who must have thought it very modern and democratic to use such a banausic title. Elsewhere we mostly have scrappy, ill-printed, flimsy little squares of plain paper, more like till receipts from a chip shop than the emblem of a contract between issuer and holder bestowing legal status and conferring certain entitlements deriving from governmental legislation. S. M. S. had me scratching my head, but fortunately the date is still visible and on 13th August 1977 I was at Pembroke Dock ...so it must be Silcox Motor Services. C. C. T. still has me puzzled though, and the date is no help. I think the form So-and-So Corporation Transport was entirely defunct by 1977, but ticket machines must have continued to show the old style. Colchester? Cardiff? Chesterfield?