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 |
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