Aberdeen Corporation Tramways

In September 1898 Aberdeen Corporation Tramways Committee agreed to introduced celluloid tokens at the same discount as sheets of tickets, 13 penny tokens sold for 1/-. In December 1898 the tokens had not been issued, suggesting that the issue was in 1899. In August 1902 the committee was reviewing the routes with some options including removing the discount from the tokens and stopping composition tickets. The decision was made in 1905 that from 1st November the discount would be stopped and the tokens would only be available from the tramway office.
In May 1915 the Corporation started issuing free tokens to the military for use by soldiers, sailors and nurses on duty. These were replaced in August 1917 by half fares with the minimum fare of 1/2d.
In 1920, due to increasing costs, Aberdeen Corporation introduced the 3/4d fare for a single stage. To avoid the use of farthings, this fare was only available through tokens bought at 12 for 9d.
There are four die varieties of the Aberdeen Corporation Tramways tokens obverse.

Type 1 - Left leopard ear to EE, right leopard head close to P, right leopard tail points to A
Type 2 - Left leopard ear to end of first E, right leopard head further from P, right leopard tail points to A, smaller legend, shorter leopard faces, especially right one
Type 3 - Left leopard ear to second E, right leopard tail points to T. This obverse was used for the first Aberdeen Transport tokens
Type 4 - Left leopard ear to EN, design more crude, banner close to legend, second leopard neck not leaning back

These can be used to date the issues. See Aberdeen Corporation Tramways Dating

Type 1

Aberdeen Corporation Tramways - Type 1
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.0005aii
	Value	½d
	Add Desc.
	Size (mm)	22.2 x 2.2
	Manufacture	Dark Blue Celluloid
	Notes
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.001
	Value	1d
	Add Desc.
	Size (mm)	21.6 x 2.0
	Manufacture	Light Turquoise/Turquoise Celluloid
	Notes	ATW.001 varieties
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.0015c
	Value	1½d
	Add Desc.
	Size (mm)	21.9 x 2.3
	Manufacture	Pink Celluloid
	Notes
File:ATW.Z01a.jpg
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.Z01a
	Value	0
	Add Desc.	NTC
	Size (mm)	23
	Manufacture	Dark Blue Celluloid
	Notes	Used by National Telephone Co. Employees
File:ATW.Z01b.jpg
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.Z01b
	Value	0
	Add Desc.	NTC
	Size (mm)	23
	Manufacture	Cream Celluloid
	Notes
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.Z01c
	Value	0
	Add Desc.	NTC
	Size (mm)	23
	Manufacture	Cream Coated Orange Celluloid
	Notes
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.P01
	Value	0
	Add Desc.	GPO
	Size (mm)	22.4 x 1.9
	Manufacture	Brown Celluloid
	Notes	General Post Office
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.Z02a
	Value	0
	Add Desc.	P
	Size (mm)	21.9 x 2.2
	Manufacture	Yellow Celluloid
	Notes	Police
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.Z02b
	Value	0
	Add Desc.	P
	Size (mm)	22.5 x 2.3
	Manufacture	Lemon Celluloid
	Notes	Police

Type 2

Aberdeen Corporation Tramways - Type 2
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.0005a
	Value	½d
	Add Desc.
	Size (mm)	23
	Manufacture	Blue/Dk Blue Plastic
	Notes	ATW.0005a varieties
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.00075c
	Value	¾d
	Add Desc.
	Size (mm)	22.2 x 2.3
	Manufacture	Dk Green Celluloid
	Notes
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.001
	Value	1d
	Add Desc.
	Size (mm)	23
	Manufacture	Turquoise/Grey-blue/Blue Plastic
	Notes	ATW.001 varieties
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.B01
	Value	0
	Add Desc.	"B"
	Size (mm)	23
	Manufacture	White Celluloid
	Notes	Blind Persons
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.Z03ai
	Value	½d
	Add Desc.	On Military Duty
	Size (mm)	21.7 x 2.2
	Manufacture	Transparent Celluloid
	Notes	Issued 1915 to 1917 Possibly yellowed with age/handling
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.Z03b
	Value	1d
	Add Desc.	On Military Duty.
	Size (mm)	23
	Manufacture	Pink Celluloid
	Notes	Issued 1915 to 1917

Type 3

Aberdeen Corporation Tramways - Type 3
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.00075a
	Value	¾d
	Add Desc.
	Size (mm)	23
	Manufacture	Dark Green Celluloid
	Notes
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.00075b
	Value	¾d
	Add Desc.
	Size (mm)	23
	Manufacture	Light Blue Celluloid
	Notes
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.0015a
	Value	1½d
	Add Desc.
	Size (mm)	22 x 2.2
	Manufacture	Light Pink/Pink Celluloid
	Notes	ATW.0015a varieties
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.0015b
	Value	1½d
	Add Desc.
	Size (mm)	22.5 x 2 to 2.2
	Manufacture	Purple Celluloid
	Notes
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.002
	Value	2d
	Add Desc.
	Size (mm)	22.9 x 2.3
	Manufacture	White Celluloid
	Notes
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.B0051
	Value	½d
	Add Desc.	"B"
	Size (mm)	22 x 2.1
	Manufacture	Red Brown celluloid
	Notes	Blind Persons
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.B0052
	Value	½d
	Add Desc.	"B"
	Size (mm)	22.6 x 2.6
	Manufacture	Dark Brown Celluloid
	Notes	Blind Persons
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.P02
	Value	0
	Add Desc.	GPO
	Size (mm)	23
	Manufacture	Lt Red/Dk Red/Red Brown Plastic
	Notes	General Post Office ATW.P02 varieties

Type 4

Aberdeen Corporation Tramways - Type 4
	Source	(Smith 30/AV)
	Filename	ATW.001a
	Value	1d
	Add Desc.
	Size (mm)	21.5 x 2.1
	Manufacture	Light Blue Celluloid
	Notes
File:ATW.0015d.jpg
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.0015d
	Value	1½d
	Add Desc.
	Size (mm)	22
	Manufacture	Light Pink Celluloid
	Notes	Seen on ebay
	Source	(Smith)
	Filename	ATW.Z02
	Value	0
	Add Desc.	"P"
	Size (mm)	22.2 x 2.2
	Manufacture	Yellow Celluloid
	Notes	Police

Type to be identified

Aberdeen Corporation Tramways - Type to be identified
File:ATW.0005c.jpg
	Source	(Smith 30AP)
	Filename	ATW.0005c
	Value	½d
	Add Desc.
	Size (mm)	23
	Manufacture	Blue centre between dark blue slices Plastic
	Notes
File:ATW.00075e.jpg
	Source	(Smith 30AT)
	Filename	ATW.00075e
	Value	¾d
	Add Desc.
	Size (mm)	23
	Manufacture	Dark Blue Plastic
	Notes

Employee Passes

Aberdeen Corporation Tramways Employee Pass
	Source	(Smith 30/PA)
	Filename	ATW.P001
	Value
	Add Desc.	Employee's Pass
	Size (mm)	42
	Manufacture	Aluminum
	Notes	Image from the RB Breingan collection auction 17/03/21, courtesy of Simmons Gallery.