AUTOMATIC BOOKING.
The Groat Western and Great Central railways are shortly to try an iugenious machine, which is oxpoctud to make the booking clerk almost a superfluity. The machine is 3ft (Uu long, barely 2ft broad and 4ft in height. When a ticket to a certain station is required, au indicator which carries the name of every statiou upon the system arranged in alphabetical order is touched, the clerk slips a blank iuto a, slot in the printing carriage, a small baudlo is turned, and a completely printed ticket drops out ready for use. That is all tho work required. At the same time tho ticket is priuted a record of the sale is placed in duplicate upon a continuous! strip of paper, together with the faro, and all information required for bookkeeping. When the clerk goes off duty, all that ho has to do is to total thocoutinuous strip and to count his cash.
The machine is capable of printing three thousand different tickets.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9632, 22 March 1910, Page 7
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165AUTOMATIC BOOKING. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9632, 22 March 1910, Page 7
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