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passimeter|pəˈsɪmɪtə(r)|
Also (erron.) passimetre.
[f. pass v. or passenger + -meter.]
An automatic machine for supplying public transport passengers with tickets and recording the number of people who pass through.
1921Railway Gaz. 2 Dec. 860/2 There are three separate registering cyclometers... The first registers the dating and cancellation of each ticket, setting the passenger free to proceed through the ‘passimeter’, whereby another cyclometer automatically records his passage. 1923Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 6/4 Fifteen passimeters will be installed, and..it is hoped..to eliminate booking queues. 1927Observer 16 Jan. 18/2 The work of substituting passimeters for the booking offices is now in progress. 1928Daily Express 10 May 9 What a contrast with the modern ‘passimetre’, the glitter of green and white tile, the silent motion of escalators! 1928J. P. Thomas Handling London's Undergr. Traffic xii. 156 The first passimeter booking-office was introduced at Kilburn Park in 1921. 1964Guardian 26 June 5/2 Central London is to have six experimental ‘standee’ buses, on which a single coin fare will be placed in a ‘passimeter’. Ibid. 1 Dec. 4/2 On the six fast ‘standee’ buses which London Transport hopes to introduce next year..the fare..will be placed in a ‘passimeter’. |