London Transport 'Gibson' Ticket Machine

A recent eBay acquisition, I've been after one of these machines for many years, as they were the ticket machines used on the buses when I was growing up in the 1960s. It's a pre-decimal machine, with the 'old' £sd fare values, which makes it even better, as most of the surviving machines were converted to decimal currency and then to 'alpha' values of A, B, C etc. due to rapid fare increases.

The machine is named after its inventor, George Gibson, who was London Transport's Superintendent of fare collection at LT's Effra Road ticket machine works.

The route number 169 on the ticket shown was the route that used to go past the house I lived in at the time, so I had to set it on this machine..!