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bell punch en · NOUN
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(dated) A kind of conductor's punch which rings a bell when used.
All local tickets were issued in the cars by the conductor, and were of the usual tramway bell-punch type.
1939 June, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Bideford, Westward Ho! & Appledore Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 459:The guard performs athletic feats in jumping from coach to coach while the train is in motion, taking orders for tickets, punching them on a bell punch in his van, and then returning to distribute them to passengers.
1950 December, R. C. J. Day and R. K. Kirkland, “The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 842:
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