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John B. Edmondson Ltd Biography Biography
John B. Edmondson was the son of Thomas Edmondson, the inventor of the Edmondson Railway Ticket System. The system revolutionised the way rail travel was managed by conductors and railway companies. The system consisted of tickets in the form of a small piece of cardboard, pre-printed with journey details (as opposed to the then current hand-written paper bill). The tickets would be numbered by hand, and validated by a separate date-stamping press when purchased. Thomas Edmondson died in 1851 and his son continued the business, which continued producing printed tickets into the 1950s. John B. Edmondson Ltd was located in Cheetham, Manchester, and expanded into general printing and box making.

Scope and Content
The catalogue provides a history of the invention of the Edmondson system along with details of printing machines, ticket counting machines, ticket issuing cases, ticket dating presses, ticket destroying machines and ticket nippers. The pro forma letter informed customers that the ticket printing department was to be closed, but that the general printing and box making departments of the company was due to expand.
Extent
2 items
Language
English
Archival history
Provenance unknown. The items were transferred to the archive in July 2013 from an unknown location. No documentation exists to support a link with an object in the collection or to provide evidence of how or when the items arrived at the Museum.
Level of description
TOP
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum
Subject
Printing
Printing equipment
Printing methods
Printing
Printing presses
Conditions governing access
Open Access.
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions.