Historical information

ticket

Significance

Demonstrates a variety of daily tickets used by the Provincial Tramways in Victoria.

Physical description

A collection of tramways tickets known as 'flimsies', produced by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria. The tickets are for use on the provincial tramways of Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong. The daily tickets, which are printed in color on beige or cream colored paper, have a value between 5 pence and 1/-. The tickets are all individually numbered, and show the value by displaying a large, colored number on the face of the ticket.

Inscriptions & markings

Some of the tickets are stamped with the words "Concession" or "Cancelled". The 7d ticket has the date of issue written by hand where the ticket number is usually positioned.