Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 51 minutes ago

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The Beckson ticket machine was used in Dutch buses and trams from about 1952 till 1980. I briefly tell the long and complicated history of the company behind this machine, and show how to use it.

For more information about this and other machines in my collection, please visit:
jaapsch.net/mechcalc

0:00 Introduction
0:27 History - Christopher Becker
2:35 History - Becker's Sons
5:45 History - Beckson
8:24 Beckson ticket machine
9:17 Input levers
11:00 Issuing a ticket
12:35 Opening the machine
13:30 Mechanism
16:13 Totals register
16:53 Outro