Atts on the bus

[dick]

I don't know where to post it, but I have as non-Bangkokian a question. What is the thai name for the conductors 'ticketcase' the on the Bangkokbus?
And how can I mention ,in thai, the blue routeplates on the buses?
Is there someone who has a collection of (old) bus and tramticket of Bangkok?

[dick]

Please forum members,
For my english version article about the bangkoktram/bus I like to give some colour locale, therefore I like to use some thai equivalents for the instrument what our conductors (male/female) are using on the buses for selling tickets.
Thanks ;)
Dick

[GWR]

Please forum members,
For my english version article about the bangkoktram/bus I like to give some colour locale, therefore I like to use some thai equivalents for the instrument what our conductors (male/female) are using on the buses for selling tickets.
Thanks ;)
Dick

I'm afraid it's a bit pedestrian and far from romantic. 'Er indoors says it's a 'Glohng Kai Too-uh', which is literally 'a box to sell tickets'. Right now i'm on a non-thai keyboard. Do you need that in Thai script?

[dick]

I'm afraid it's a bit pedestrian and far from romantic. 'Er indoors says it's a 'Glohng Kai Too-uh', which is literally 'a box to sell tickets'. Right now i'm on a non-thai keyboard. Do you need that in Thai script?
Thanks GWR,
If possible: yes (no hurry). Such items are seldom in a dictionary, but gaves the articles more vivacity.

[GWR]

I haven't used Thai script for ages, and so had to discover all over again how to activate the keyboard:-

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I'm going to have to ask someone what an 'Att' is, as these tickets are 4 Atts each. It says the same in Thai too.

'Er indoors tells me that an 'Att' was equivalent to 1 Baht, and to the best of her knowledge preceded Ticals, which in turn preceded Baht; although at any given time, 'Somchai/Somsri Public' was probably using both or all three terms.:confused:

[Wisarut]

64 Att = 1 Baht (Tical) .... 1 Att could buy a plate of rice with curry at that day though .... :)

[dick]

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I'm going to have to ask someone what an 'Att' is, as these tickets are 4 Atts each. It says the same in Thai too.

'Er indoors tells me that an 'Att' was equivalent to 1 Baht, and to the best of her knowledge preceded Ticals, which in turn preceded Baht; although at any given time, 'Somchai/Somsri Public' was probably using both or all three terms.:confused:
Oops, also Bangkok tickets are collectors items now. GWR, thanks for this message. I will look to my own collection now (no Bangkoktickets!), but I have hundreds of tickets from the years 1881-1932 and later from the duth heavy interurbans (the famous Blue Tram between The Hague-Leiden-Haarlem and Amsterdam). Besides this, the Att, Tical and Salung and others has also an interesting development. See also the stampcatalogue of Thailand/Yvert Tellier or Stanly Gibbons!

[GWR]

‘A History of Thailand’, Chris Baker & Pasuk Phongpaichit, 2005, Cambridge University Press. Page 111 Quote from Copeland, ‘Contested nationalism, p. 64.:-

‘Urban Labour also expressed its demands in the language of nationalism. In 1922-23, tramway workers went on strike for better wages. Labour leaders portrayed the strike as a blow against the tramway company’s foreign owners and noble shareholders “by workers who are attempting to make a cruel employer realize that the Thai are not slaves and that the Thai nation must be free”.’

:) <("Seems to be a familiar tactic!") ("Yes, only flag-waving nationalists are entitled to pay shit wages")>:p

[Wisarut]

Khun GWR, That's the strike which I have mentioned before ... I have seen the record of that strikes of tram workers in siam electricity Co.ltd. in 1920, 1922-1923 ....

Same can be said to the Strike by Chinese workers in Makkasan Mintianace center in 1916, 1930 ... and Simese Labors from Makkasan railway Maintainace Center 1932, 1933-34, and of course 1953, 1956 .... :eek:

[Wisarut]

Well Tram that use "Att" as a unit of payment must be before the application gold standard and official decimal system in 1908 .... even though there was a failed introduction of Satang in 1897 ... which had been demonetised to prevent confusion with 1908 series in 1909 ... :) :p