Yelloway ticket packet/envelope

When a driver collected passenger tickets on a journey they were placed in one of these ticket envelopes. The envelopes would end up in the Revenue Office for analysis. In the late 1960s/early 1970s all these tasks were handled manually. The clerks would open the packets and on specifically drawn sheets (created on the Gestetner duplicator) the tickets within the packet would be analysed and point to point passenger numbers recorded and totalled using appropriate cash values (full value if a single fare or 50% value of a return fare). The grand totals of passengers numbers and revenue for that one coach would therefore be visible. Over a period these numbers would go on to a larger analysis to establish the totals for the season. Nowadays a spreadsheet could do this - but they didn't exist back then!