Yelloway analysis sheet (this example is for the 'Devonian' service via Stockport etc)

Mention was made previously in the narrative of the Traffic Sheet, about the 'Analysis Sheet' completed by the Chart Room staff. They totalled up all the passenger point to point numbers for the individual service departure to give a grand total. The figures were provided to the Traffic Office in order to provide the correct number of vehicles/seats as required along the line of route. All the figures were completed in pencil and the totalling done mentally without the aid of calculators. At quiet times these sheets were usually prepared the day before the service but for busy 'wakes weeks' weekends (when the figures could be one or two thousand per service departure!) they were prepared a couple or so weeks previously and updated along the way to ensure the correct number of duplicate coaches could be arranged. The grand total box at the bottom got rubbed out so much during that period that a hole would gradually appear in the paper requiring a piece of sticky label to be added to enable totalling to continue!