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Description: | This photo shows a man in a smart overcoat and a bowler hat inserting coins into a ticket machine. The station is Mansion House, which is on Cannon Street in the financial district.
In 1883, Mansion House was the first Underground station to install a vending machine.
Self-service ticket machines were first introduced in 1904. They were mechanically operated and issued pre-printed tickets. The first electrically operated automatic ticket machine was introduced by the Underground Group in 1908. The early machines could not give change.
A notice on the machine in this photo from 1928 informs customers that change can be given. Three pence was equivalent to about 44p in modern currency. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport | Temporal: | Mar 1928 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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