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Description: | The woman in this photo is bus conductor Mrs McKenna of Twickenham garage. She is taking money for a ticket from a woman passenger. Strapped around her chest is a Bell Punch ticket machine, used for validating the tickets. This type of machine was used from 1893 to 1953.
The picture was taken in October 1952, just before the Gibson ticket machine was introduced to replace the Bell Punch. The Gibson was invented by George Gibson, superintendent of the London Transport ticket machine works in Stockwell. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Work | Temporal: | Oct 1952 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Photographer : Dr Heinz Zinram | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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