ST. LEONARDS BUS TICKET
An explanation. This is not the actual bus ticket from the Somerton Man case but it is a clearer one than the one we have.
I searched for and found an MTT ticket from the 1940s, (it was originally a 6 pence ticket), and what I have done is to remove the 6 pence symbol and insert the 7 pence. No doubt there will be a Train ticket out there which might be an improvement. My understanding is that both tickets that we have from the case were actually artists' impressions.
As you can see this ticket was for a child. You can also see that there is UP trip and a DOWN trip with numbers 1 to 9 beneath each heading, those numbers indicate the section. I am not certain how many sections there were from The Grosvenor Hotel opposite the railway station to St Leonard's. The ticket number is shown and a set of letters might have indicated the route in those days.
It's been many years since I drove a bus in Adelaide, I worked out of Hackney initially and then worked as a revenue clerk in various locations. That would be the 1970s.
A small contribution but worth having.
there's cool isn'it! Not as easy as it looks I'll bet..
ReplyDeleteIt cam together quite well. I've done quite a few enhancements of images for the Somerton Man case over the years. One of the first ones was the suitcase and contents as it happens. You know the pic that shows the clothes and bits and pieces laid out on a floor. Did that in the Adelaide University FB page must be 10 years go. Anyway we were having a discussion at the time about what was in the case or not and the original image was very dark so I spent a bit of time on it, we got a decent list including the socks would you believe! It comes in handy for people who are new to the case to be able to see images as clear as we can get them. Will chase down a railway ticket next.
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ReplyDeleteGordon, would you have expected the train ticket (which was clipped on issue) to have been collected at the station exit gate, which is why it is presumed to be unused? Is there another reason to say it was unused?
ReplyDeleteAlan, The train ticket wasn't clipped, the bus ticket was. The process for the train ticket as I understand it is that the ticket offices were a little distant from the platforms, so having purchased a ticket you would walk to the correct platform gate where there was a guard who would clip your ticket before you walked on to the platform. In my days driving a bus for the STA in the late 70s, we each had a big old bag with the change machine and a bunch of tickets which we handed in at the end of the shift.
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