Significance

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

Physical description

Block with one remaining ticket - red ink on off white paper, denomination 2d, over stamped in black "Concession" numbered 685999A, headed State Electricity Commission of Victoria, Provincial Tramways. Originally a block of 200 tickets been stapled onto a plain cardboard back with a heavy metal staple and a off white coloured cardboard retaining strip at the top of the ticket. The ticket price is in red ink while the ticket number itself is in black ink. On rear in red ink is a diagonal criss cross or tartan pattern.



See also Reg Item 3999 for another 2d Concession - but note difference check points on side of ticket.



See Alan Bradley's notes "Fares in Ballarat"