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Just the token!

1st November 1968
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• Managers of municipal undertakings in Lancashire and north Cheshire were, last Friday, the first transport people in the country to see the latest version of the Halpern-Ward electronic fare-accountancy system, which employs a universally acceptable travel token and does away with the need for printed tickets.

Demonstrating his equipment to a managers' meeting of Area C of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association at Liverpool, the inventor, Mr. John W. Halpern, revealed that an even more compact and sophisticated version was almost ready for production.

Mr. Halpern said after the meeting that the

next step would be for an undertaking or group of operators with common routes to offer his firm, Pneumatic and Electronic Control Systems Holdings, 140 Abbey House. Victoria Street, London, SW1, feasibility trials of the equipment an buses. -Very little capital outlay would be involved." he said.

The Area C managers also saw from the control unit in Hatton Garden the effect that Liverpool Corporation's computerized traffic control and television surveillance unit was having on city centre traffic in the evening peak. In service since July, the unit has greatly speeded up the movement of traffic throughout the day.