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Tho British public have tsik'cn the slot niiiuhino to their hearts! No Jess than 20 per cent, of the millions of tickets issued on the London underground railways are taken from machines. An official said to the "Sunday Dispatch": At Victoria Station we have installed Iho Jirst machine of a British type. It is operated on tho principle of a continuously moving belt. It will not ouly give you the correct change from Is or sixpence, but it will accept any reasonable number of pennies in bulk. "Jf you want four threepenny tickets, you simply 'place twelve coppers in tho machine at ono time. If you have counted wrongly, the machine- corrects you. If you have put in one penny too few, it registers "One" to .show 3rou what has happened, and so on. If you have put in one penny too many, it registers "Two," which shows that you must put in two more coppers. You will then get an extra ticket, money for which will bo refunded at the booking office. Tho machine works in. the same way with halfpennies. If the Victorian experiment is successful, machines will bo installed at other busy stations.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 121, 25 May 1931, Page 16
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 121, 25 May 1931, Page 16
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