Significance

Demonstrates the Museum's ticketing systems and ongoing production of tickets.

Physical description

Four Blocks of 100 tickets - black ink on off white paper, with ticket number in black ink denomination $1, headed Ballarat Vintage Tramway. On rear in black ink is an advertisement for the Tram Family Restaurant, corner Macarthur and Drummond St. North. The 100 tickets have been stapled onto a heavy brown cardboard back with a heavy metal staple and a small brown cardboard retaining strip or butt at the top of the ticket.



2432.1 - A00001 to A00100 (The first block collected at the time of issue 1/12/1987)

2432.2 - A00201 to A00300 (collected at the same time)

2432.3 - A00301 to A00400 (collected at the same time)

2433.4 - A00001 to A00100 (lighter black ink, larger block size the others, was part of a rejected run of tickets by the printer, printing too light, wrong type of paper and too large size to that ordered, rest of tickets were returned.)



The tickets are in the style of the former State Electricity Commission of Victoria tramway tickets.



Tickets in use as adult return fare from 1/12/87 to 30/6/91. Note last block issued 19/1/1991. Replaced with the 1/- tickets.



See BTM fare chart, BTM Ticket issuing sheets.