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 110 remaining tickets - red ink on off white paper, denomination 2d, numbered U694490 - 599, 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 pink 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 Alan Bradley's notes "Fares in Ballarat"