Re: Edmonson Ticket type

[Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au>]

John Duncan McCallum wrote:


> I never saw any tickets with numbers inside a black square until I first
> visited
> Victoria in 1967.
> All other states either used black numbers or embossed.
> AFAIK numbers in black squares was uniquely VR.

The black squares were the standard arrangement in NSW till the 1960s,
at a guess, and many survived much longer than that. 

In view of the interstate rivalry which seems to be apparent on this
newsgroup recently, it would be unwise of me to comment that the
Victorians just never brought themselves into the modern era in this
matter.

Eddie