Zones 1 & 2 Oyster from Manor House, 1933 Style

Comment by StephenBln on July 4, 2016 at 12:19

It's a regular Monthly ticket.

To be issued one, you had to wait at one the windows at Manor House Tube station, only at certain times, a couple of days before the end of the month. A registration/control card was completed and you were issued a monthly pass. This procedure was repeated every month.

I seem to recall that the ticket office staff were just like schoolmasters and treated the passenghers accordingly.

Comment by StephenBln on July 4, 2016 at 12:22

Interesting in that is is ticket no.41.

Manor House station had only opened for business in Sept. 1932 and this would suggest that there were only 3 or 4 people who had used montly tickets from Manor House to Covent Garden up until August 1933.

Comment by Hugh on July 4, 2016 at 12:32

Thanks. What's the significance of the large 29?

Comment by StephenBln on July 4, 2016 at 13:00

Thanks for pulling me up .. This is NOT a monthly, it's a weekly ticket .. Each week had a random number allocated to it (which was kept secret until the week of use) - to aid the ticket collectors when large numbers of passengers were exiting stations, as well as hindering fraudulent travel.

This of course, lowers the numbers of passengers using weekly tickets to Covent Garden.

Comment by Hugh on July 4, 2016 at 13:11

Me pulling you up on a transport related issue? Forget that! Just asking out of complete ignorance.

Comment by Richard Woods on July 8, 2016 at 16:19

2015 cost would be about £25 with RPI inflation- anyone know?

Comment by Hugh on July 8, 2016 at 16:33

This is what I get from measuringworth.com:

If you take the labour values, I think it's pretty comparable to the cost today.

Comment by Richard Woods on July 8, 2016 at 22:28

I used the Bank of England calculator.

Comment by Hugh on July 8, 2016 at 23:54

I must be doing something wrong with that calculator. The lowest sum you can use is £1. That gives a figure of £64.55. 3/9 is 19p (if I remember right). 0.19 x 64.55 gives a 2015 value of £12.26. That looks very similar to the value given in the first option on the site I used (Or do I have my knickers in a twist?)

Comment by Richard Woods on July 9, 2016 at 12:13

It was me... I went 4s or approx 20% of a quid; then I got it wrong! £12 is about right. Sorry.

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