This is a portable ticket machine. It was made by AEG in Germany and this one is mounted on a stand. But yeah, they were used by the Dutch national railways in the early 1970s. They were also quite widely used in Germany itself. On the front you have these input pins. Here you can set the price in these first four digits. This fourth column can only go to zero or to five, so the price is rounded to the nearest five cents. The next column here is the ticket type, single return and so on. This column is the second class and first class. I don't know what the others are. Here we have three digits and that's the destination. Every station in the country had a unique three digit code. The three digits here are the starting station. So the details could be entered in the front and then you'd turn this handle and a ticket would be printed out. On these tickets there should normally be a logo at the top here of the Dutch national railways. But yeah, they removed the cliché, the printing plate for that when they decommissioned these machines. The next line is the price and the stations. I'm not sure what those other two digits are. Then another plate in between and here we have the ticket type and the date. This is a serial number of the ticket. I can remove this from its stand. I'll just try and do that now. So it could be used portably by attaching a strap to these two knobs. On the bottom is our two counters. The one over here is incremented every time you print a ticket and those last four digits are what appear on the ticket here. This number, this register adds together all the prices, all the fares. So this would be the total amount of money that has been used to print it out. The tickets can just be pulled off like that. And here there is the opening latch and you can open up the machine. Inside, here is the roll of paper for the tickets. There's a strap to make sure that it doesn't open up too far. Here is a cartridge that has its own roll of paper. So this cartridge is then sent to the central office where they open it up. There's a small lock on this side. So they open it up and check all the numbers. Underneath this cartridge is the ink roll. I've put some new ink on there but that doesn't really work very well. Here is the other printing heads that actually prints the numbers. On this side we have a little stylus. With that you can set these digits here. That's the date. So every morning you'd increment this by one. When it's open like this you can't turn the handle because there's a small switch here. That needs to be pushed down before the handle, before the crank can work. But it doesn't have to be pushed down too far because then it blocks as well as right in the middle. The reason for that is this cartridge. It also has a small pin here. So now when it's locked it would push that safety catch just try enough. But if this were unlocked this pin would be moved that way. So that's yeah, then the printer wouldn't work again. Okay. Let's just try and put this in. There we go. This was the AEG Cowl ticket machine. Thank you for watching.