Significance

Yields information about the style and printing of tickets used in Ballarat and Bendigo tramways and how they were presented.

Physical description

1716 - Block of 200 tickets - yellow ink on off white paper, denomination 5c, lettered B 639400 to B 639599, headed State Electricity Commission of Victoria, Provincial Tramways. On rear in yellow ink is a SEC advertisement "ELECTRICITY makes life easier" with the SEC's little boy wrapped in a towel logo. The 200 tickets have been stapled onto a heavy cardboard back with a heavy metal staple and a small cardboard retaining strip at the top of the ticket. The ticket number is in black ink.



1716.1 - ditto - B612600 to B612799

1716.2 - ditto - A624792 - A624799



See Reference file for further information.



See ticket file and printed document - "Fare Charts and Tickets - SEC Ballarat and Bendigo Tramways".