Significance

Demonstrates the method of dispensing tickets by conductors, how the tickets could be arranged, during the last period of Ballarat Tramways - 1971 fare system.

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

Physical description

Ticket wallet with a set of eight 1970's Ballarat tram tickets set up to represent a typical conductor's set of tickets.



.1 - Sheet of leather, approx. 2mm thick, stained brown with four pockets formed on each side with another sheet of leather, stitched on all sides to form pockets to hold eight blocks of tickets. Stitching is a brown cotton.



.2 - 4c ticket block - C366800 - 366999

.3 - 5c City section ticket block - A381600 - 381799

.4 - 7c City section ticket block - A162001 - 162199

.5 - 8c ticket block - A934201 - 934399

.6 - 10c ticket block - C468600 - 468799

.7 - 13c ticket block - B316400 - 316599

.8 - 16c ticket block - A585400 - 585599

.9 - 18c ticket block - A483200 - 438399



Ticket numbers have not been checked for intermediate numbers.