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 14 remaining tickets - orange ink on off white paper, denomination 3d, numbered W290386 - 99, 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 plain coloured 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.



See Alan Bradley's notes "Fares in Ballarat"