Significance

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

Physical description

Two Blocks, each with four remaining tickets - orange ink on off white paper, denomination 3d, numbered V526396 - 99 and A648196 - 99, headed State Electricity Commission of Victoria, Provincial Tramways. Originally a block of 200 tickets been stapled onto a cardboard back with a heavy metal staple and a off white coloured or plain cardboard retaining strip at the top of the ticket. The ticket price is in orange ink while the ticket number itself is in black ink. On rear in orange ink is a diagonal criss cross or tartan pattern.



3987.1 - has a white cardboard back, slightly shorter than the ticket with ruling on one side.

3987.2 - has a brown / grey cardboard back.



Note the size of the 3d varies between the two tickets and the punch marking lists on either side.



See Alan Bradley's notes "Fares in Ballarat"