Billettdruckgerät

Edmondsonsche Billettdruckmaschine, Nr. 146, der SBB, von der Gandenberg’schen Maschinenfabrik

Dating

1910

Persons

SBB CFF FFS Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (1902), Betreiber/in oder Benutzer/in, archivalisch belegt

Gandenberg’sche Maschinenfabrik, Hersteller/in, archivalisch belegt

Thomas Edmondson, Patent/System, archivalisch belegt

Description

Edmondsonsche Billettdruckmaschine, Nr. 146, der Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen, hergestellt von der Gandenberg’schen Maschinenfabrik (G. Göbel) in Darmstadt, nach dem Patent von Thomas Edmondson.

Signature / Inscription

Signatur / Beschriftung: Beschriftung: "N° 146 / Gandenberger'sche M. Fabrik / G. Göbel / Darmstadt"

Object type

Object (three-dimensional)

Geography

Gebrauchsort: Schweiz Place of manufacture: Darmstadt, Deutschland

Material / Technique

Metall

Dimensions

84 x 67 x 176 cm H vermutlich inkl. Sockelbrett

Inventory number

VHS-21

Rights

Quellennachweis: Verkehrshaus der Schweiz, Luzern

Legend

Ticket printing machine Gandenberg Engineering Works Darmstadt about 1910 The travellers conclude a contract of carriage with the railway company and receive in return a ticket, which is a receipt and a travel document at the same time. In addition to the hand-written cards and the computer tickets used nowadays, the 3 x 5,7 cm large cardboard tickets named after their inventor Thomas Edmondson were used all over the world. The trip route was pre-printed using an Edmondson ticket printing machine. At the time the ticket was purchased, the ticket clerk took a ticket from the stock and just needed to imprint the date. At the Swiss Federal Railways, 1st class ticket were yellow, 2nd class tickets green and 3rd class ones brown.