Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2014 12:13:16 GMT
A technical paper on Automatic Fare Collection (IRSE Proceedings 1966/67) says: "A prototype £1 and 10/- note changer has been in use at Hammersmith Underground station for the past year." [i.e. since about January 1966]. "This machine checks the note, and providing it is a good note, 5 florins are given in change for a 10/- note and 10 florins for the £1 note. By use of this machine the passenger is provided with coins which he can put into one of the automatic machines." The same paper has a photo of the vast multi-fare ticket issuing machine installed at Hammersmith (tube) station.
Does anyone else remember these machines? The paper says: "...providing it is a good note.." but I seem to recall that it was very easy to fool the note-changer with photocopies of the front and back of a £1 note and that all that the machine looked for was a strip of metallic foil (e.g. the silver paper from a chocolate wrapper or a box of cigarettes). Also that this fraud was so rife that a team of revenue officers hid behind the machines and jumped out to nab the passenger as soon as a fake £1 note was inserted.
Can anyone corroborate this or was I misled by the person who told me this?
Andy Emmerson.
Does anyone else remember these machines? The paper says: "...providing it is a good note.." but I seem to recall that it was very easy to fool the note-changer with photocopies of the front and back of a £1 note and that all that the machine looked for was a strip of metallic foil (e.g. the silver paper from a chocolate wrapper or a box of cigarettes). Also that this fraud was so rife that a team of revenue officers hid behind the machines and jumped out to nab the passenger as soon as a fake £1 note was inserted.
Can anyone corroborate this or was I misled by the person who told me this?
Andy Emmerson.
