Yelloway coach tickets (prepared for my college work 1970s)

Photocopies of Yelloway tickets - the yellow colouring was applied by me to represent the paper colour. The lower tickets were black print on white card.

Upper: Excursion ticket – a simple square ticket a copy of which was retained by the issuing office. Some operators issued two part tickets, one presented on the outward journey and a second ticket for the return journey. This prevented any fraudulent riders travelling. This example was issued by Lancaster's, the booing agent in Shaw, for one adult and one child on a football excursion to a Manchester City football match at Maine Road.

Lower: ‘Block tickets’ – This was the term used by Yelloway to differentiate this style of ticket from ‘excursion tickets’ or multi-part carbon tickets used for single and period return journeys made on longer distance coach services. The ‘block ticket’ was widely used by Yelloway on its coastal services, football and dance hall services and comprised two portions, one for the outward journey and one for the return journey. When making a sale the pair were detached from the retaining block which carried the ticket number, the block was then used for accounting purposes. A ticket punch was used to punch out the date of travel.