Kic-ht IfiimiilnB"" «"<>»*■> September So, 1951

Londoner Has 16.000 Bus And Tram
Tickets

Mr. F. li. Willi..ins, a Londoner, lias
a bobby. He collects l>us and tram
tickets, 'in i has a collection (if more
than lt>,000 different varieties.

The beginning of this precious hoard
of paper and cardboard (late from IMS
when ho began to keep his bus and tram
tickets to f ie how much money he spen'
on fares. Then the ticket fever caught
him. he now belongs to a ttrange asso.
elation called the Ticket and Fare Collec-
tion Soci"tv.

'TICKETING PARTIES

Mr. Williams is a schoolmaster, and
ill the H H. C.'s " In Town Tonight
programme he recently described how
his pupils pandered to his hobby and
went out with him on what he called
Mickelting parlies."

He goes, so far as is possible all
over the country and well renumbers a
reil-letler day last year iu South Wales,
when he found lying in lb* road out-
side Swansea a six penny ticket from the
number •j:tn bus route in London. As
this particular type of ticket was not in
his collection Mr Williams pounced on
the rarity with avidity.

PISKY JOB

His hobby, mild as it may seem,
is not without its risks. Once, when
standing on Keuuington Station, Mr.
Williams saw a beautiful Green Line bus
(MUM ticket caught by the wind as the
train came in. "At considerable perso-
nal risk I smothered the ticket with my
body and saved it from going under
ti e train " he said.

Mr Williams now wants a two-
pence-halfpenny child s return-ticket issu-
ed at Finchley Station in London, but
when he went to buy one recently the
station official, obscrvina that his costo-

The Story of the Telephone

('.' nliiiu il from p'tyt 6)
eight copper tubes, each about the thick-
ness of a pencil. Kadi tube has a wire
running through its centre Messages
travel through the wire and along the
inside of the tube. Around the whole
Cable is a heavy insulating materia) that
shields it from water, lightning anil even
insects. Coaxial cable* can carry tele-
vision programme*, together with thou-
sands of telephone conversation*, all at
the same time.

Radio Relay
The latest Hell Laboratories inven-
tion is radio telay. It, too, carries
television programmes and telephone calls.
Radio relay has been likened by Hell
engineers to the old Pony Kxpress *of
of 100 years ago in western I tilted
States. The Pony Kxpress set up relay
stations every 15 miles along the route.
Riders rode ponies from one station to
the next, transferring their mail to a
fresh pony at each stop Radio relay
works on the same principle. Klcctric
waves are beamed across the nation
through a series of towers spaced 25
miles apart. At each station they are
amplified, in order to maintain their
strength.

Riding these waves are the voices
of the American people. Although tlcy
are -nil something new, the towers which
transmit these messages some dav will
dot the countryside. Meanwhile, Hell
engineers are going on to other deve-
lopments, tine of them is a combination
of television and telephoning which will
permit persons to see as well as hear
each ether when .talking by telephone.

mer was undeniably adult and unaccom-
panied by any other person whether
under or over I», was adamant in his
refusal to issue a ticket.