This is Father TIM welcoming you to his prototype Website

Here is a picture of a test ticket run off a new TIM machine prior to its export from the UK to the Soviet Union in 1956 :

It is believed that several thousand TIM machines were in use at one time in the USSR. Click here to view the very limited evidence available. I would be extremely interested in hearing from anyone who has examples of tickets that were issued under actual working conditions.Click to email me

Links to other pages on this website:

USSR
Coventry Corporation (pre-war)
Coventry Corporation 2 (post-war)
Numbering of pre-war machines
Test Page

Downloads

ERG TP4000 Machine Numbers unzipped (MS Word 368kB)
ERG TP4000 Machine Numbers zipped (50kB)
Ticketmedia Block Numbers (MS Excel 25 kB)

Links to other websites:

The Transport Ticket Society – plenty of pictures of other types of tickets
Pete's Trolleybus Site - a picture of a pre-war TIM machine