Two Millions A Day A Tram Ticket Tale (1932)

Every year 700 million tickets are devoured (so to speak) by London County Council tram To make these tickets, large paper rolls are first reduced in M, S of man operating machine which separates the paper into rolls. C, U of the machine in operation. A little local colour is then M, S of the machine which presumably dyes the paper. Another machine is seen in C, U. Note the dyed C, U of the striped ticket paper running through a machine. C, U of stacked rolls of paper. And they re printed. (Every ticket must have a different number, so this wonderful machine changes its numbers automatically as it L, S of man working at the printing machine. Various shots of other processes: stamping machine, woman checking strips of tickets as they come off another machine, women sitting at desks sorting the strips into piles etc. The tickets, (now in strips) are then C, U of two girls working at a wiring machine. C, U of the machine at work. . .