- Setright Machine
A Setright Machine is a machine operated by a conductor or guard for issuing bus tickets from a blank paper roll.
Technology
A Setright can print any value and could easily deal with changes in fares. A set of concentric dials on the top is used to set the value and levers can set different fares (such as "Adult" or "Child") and other vital information (such as "Inbound" or "Outbound").
Features
The machines are reliable and unlikely to jam. A distinctive whirring noise is made as each ticket is issued.
History
The company was known as Setright Registers Ltd. In 1955 it occupied Eastway Works,Eastway,
Hackney Wick , London E9 and later moved by 1967 to Fairfield Works Fairfield Road,
Bow, London E3, [Passenger Transport Year Books (Berrow's/Ian Allen publishers)] suitably adjacent to the London Transport bus garage, although LT used the Gibson Machine (produced by Ticket Equipment Ltd,based on the TIM system). Noteworthy were the vibrant export sales to the former communist countries ofCzechoslovakia and theGerman Democratic Republic where Setright machines were to be found everywhere. In contrast the marque was unknown in the formerWest Germany [cite web|title =Hersteller von Fahrscheinausrüstung| url=http://www.fahrscheinwesen.de/firmen/index.html|accessdate = 2007-09-19] .References
External links
# [http://www.g4orx.btinternet.co.uk/tickets.htm Pete's Trolleybus Site]
# [http://busesireland.fotopic.net/c531795.html Busesireland Bus Ticket Machines]# [http://www.fahrscheinwesen.de/firmen/index.html Manufacturers of ticketing equipment (in German)]
# [http://www.yellins.com/transporthistory/Tickets/machines.html Bus Ticket Machines (Gibson)]
# [http://www.haslingdencorporationtransport.org.uk/a_brief_history_of_tim.htm A brief history of TIM]
# [http://www.semple.biz/glasgow/machine.shtm Glasgow Corporation Ticket Machines]
# [http://www.skylineaviation.co.uk/buses/Tickets.html Vintage Bus Tickets]
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