Re: Edmonson Ticket type

[David Bromage <dbromage@omni.com.au>]

Eddie Oliver wrote:
> 
> 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.

You're half right there. VR and NSWGR both bought electric Waterlow 
numbering machines about the same time, but VR only supplemented their
Edmondson machines rather than replace them. Back then they still believed
that if something still worked well, it didn't have to be replaced simply
because it was old. :)

Cheers
David