Ephemera - Ticket/s, J.J. Miller, ESCo Lunch Hour Weekly Ticket, 1/6, c1927

Significance

Demonstrates how ESCo managed Weekly tickets during the late 1920's and yields information about the way the system was arranged.



The source of the ticket, NSW tramways is significant in that it was obtained by them as a sample.

Physical description

Lunch hour Weekly Ticket, price 1/6, printed for Week 1, that is not available for Sundays or Holidays. Ticket printed on light weight card, in two colours, orange and brown, printed on off white card, numbered 1387 available only between Mt Pleasant and Doveton St. between the hours of 11.50am and 2.30pm.



Notes the conditions of use, the time available for which the ticket may be used and where. Printed by J.J. Miller, Melbourne.



Ticket has been removed from a block - has staple hole at the top.



See Reg Item 2948 for circular detailing their use at the commencement of the issue of this style of Weekly Tickets - some detail differences in the style and colours later on.

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