I must admit, I was initially confused by the circuit, it's upside down! I had to go back and take a second look to analyze exactly how it worked.
I was also curious about the pencil notation that crossed out the original Zener value and substituted the 13 volts.
I'm a bit surprised they transition at that high a voltage, you'd have to be really cooking down the rails to have a track voltage of 14-15 volts I would think! Sounds to me like it mostly runs on one resistor.