Bell Punch Company Ltd

A British company which was formed in a modest way for the manufacture of ticket punches and has since developed its activities to embrace all forms of ticket control systems, calculating machines and navigational and other equipment for ships and aircraft will, next month, celebrate its seventieth anniversary. The original Bell Punch Co., Limited, was incorporated on July 5, 1878. It was established to acquire the patent rights of an American hand registering ticket punch which had already been adopted by a few tramway companies in this country, including the North Metropolitan Tramways, London Tramways, and companies operating in Glasgow, Liverpool, and a few other towns. Prior to the introduction of this system the general tariff system upon tramways involved either a universal fare or else the route was divided into zones with a flat fare charged and collected in each zone. The check was usually by means of tickets issued from a roll.