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Setright Machines on Joint Services
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WITH the do-operation of Setright VV Registers, Ltd., the Mexborough and Swinton Traction Co, Ltd., have introduced Setright ticket machines on the trolleybus and motorbus services operated jointly with Rotherham Transport Department. For more than 50 years another ticket system, adapted to the conditions of the joint agreement between the two undertakings, has been in use, but its substitution has enabled the company to eliminate large stocks of prcvalued tickets and simplified the system of internal checking and accounting.
After a period of experiment, and with the agreement of Rotherham Cor poration, the new system was introduced in February this year, and the change over will be complete within a few months. The joint agreement between the Mexborough company and the Corporation requires an actual division of the revenue respecting each operator's area. The modified standard Setright machine meets this requirement by registering the company's fares and their proportion of the through fares on the conventional pence wheel, and the Corporation's fares proportion of the through fares on the conventional shillings wheel adapted to pence. The machine will accommodate a fare range of Is. I ld.