ROBOT TICKET SELLER

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28805, 28 January 1959, Page 9

ROBOT TICKET SELLER

Trial To Be Made In Dunedin "The Press” Special Service DUNEDIN, January 27. A ticket-issuing machine will be examined in Dunedin, according to the city transport administration manager, Mr M. G. Collins. The transport committee had given approval for the department to accept an offer from an English firm to send out a machine, he said. “These machines permit considerable speeding up in the sale of tickets, obviate the need for printing and automatically record the number and value of tickets issued—which in itself would greatly simplify accounting and statistical work.” Mr Collins said the issue of tickets was automatic on the appropriate fare being dialled. The ticket-issuing machine also included a fire unit worked from the vehicle battery. The machine would be examined thoroughly to see whether it might be possible to accept its use in Dunedin as an aid to improved service, and to the reduction in the cost of printing and accounting. Indications were that work on the conversion of the diesel bus depot at Transport place, from its original form as a tram “barn” to a complete maintenance unit for diesel gnd trolley buses* would begin next month.