British Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Wiltshire Coins and Paranumismatica

Miscellaneous Tokens and Checks, Salisbury, brass, sir j.j. ltd. war dept. workmens train, rev. salisbury to codford or hettesbury, stamped 254, 51mm (cf. DNW T4, 1351). About very fine, pierced, very rare £50-£70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Wiltshire Coins, Tokens and Paranumismatica formed by the late David Ward.

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Sir John Jackson Ltd, engineering contractors to the War Department, incorporated 1898, principal Sir John Jackson (1851-1919), a Yorkshireman who became owner of the Westminster Shipping Co Ltd and MP for Devonport. In early October 1914 the company was contracted by the War Department to construct 15 army camps in and around Codford, and a further six at Heytesbury. The company employed over 1,000 workers, most of whom travelled daily on special trains from Salisbury to Codford. Progress on the build was hampered by poor weather and a strike among the workforce, but the camps were largely complete by the summer of 1915. Sold with much further detail, including copy images of Jackson and the workers