Bob Mockford Online         Bus Museum       << Museum Contents Ticket Machines Ticket Boxes >>     Home > Bus Museum > Ticket Machines   Ticket Machines Contents Punches T.I.M. Setright Insert Setright Speed Ultimate Gibson Almex Bus Museum Contents Ticket Machines Ticket Boxes Change Givers PSV Badges Hants/Wilts & Dorset After Hants & Dorset Southampton King Alfred Winchester Gosport & Fareham Southern Vectis Bristol London Transport Others Bus Books Uniform Odds & Ends Money Links                     Punches   T.I.M.   Setright Insert   Setright Speed   Ultimate             Gibson   Almex               Contents   Ticket machines by type   Punches   Before machines printed tickets, conductors carried different priced, numbered tickets. T.I.M.   TIMs were often used by municipal undertakings. Setright Insert   The predecessor of the Setright Speed was the insert model, sold from the 1930s to the 1950s. Setright Speed   The Setright Speed was the standard machine for most state owned companies. Ultimate   Ultimates were popular with municipals and also used on early London Transport PAYE services. Gibson   The classic London Transport machine. Almex   A later arrival, the Almex arrived at the end of the 1960s. Ticket machines from punches in the early 1900s to the Almex of the 1970s. Many different styles were developed to make fare collection faster and more secure. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the conductor carried a rack of pre-printed tickets which had to be punched. Later machines printed the value and other details on the ticket and kept a record of tickets issued.   << Museum Contents Top of the Page Ticket Boxes >>     Home > Bus Museum