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 1 remaining ticket - red ink on off white paper, denomination 2d, overprinted "Concession" in black, numbered A233399, headed State Electricity Commission of Victoria, Provincial Tramways. Originally a block of 100 tickets been stapled onto an off white, ruled on one side cardboard back with a heavy metal staple and an 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 3988 for another 2d Concession - but note difference check points on side of ticket.



Note: "L.P.L." in bottom right hand corner of ticket.



See Alan Bradley's notes "Fares in Ballarat"