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Description: | Concept: civilian morale, civilian personnel, women / womens work, transport, railways, military personnel, uniform, costume / fashion, flag / banner / standard Description: whole: the three main images are positioned in the upper four-fifths, with a smaller image placed in the lower left, held within a blue circular inset. The title and text are separate and positioned in the upper right and lower fifth, in black. All set against a white background and held within a yellow border. image: the left image depicts a crowd of people boarding a London Underground train. The upper right image shows several passengers seated on an Underground train. The lower right image depicts people descending a station escalator. The smaller image is a Union Flag. text: Passengers in a London Underground train. Passengers going down to the trains on a moving staircase. LONDON'S TRANSPORT. No. 2 35,000 PASSENGERS IN 15 MINUTES So great is the concentration of business and light industry in inner London that during the peak 15 minutes in the evenings some 35,000 passengers bound for home board the Underground trains at stations in the central area. The same sort of thing happens in the mornings, when about 26,000 workers arrive by Underground in one 15-minute period. Before the war, within a radius of 25 miles of Charing Cross, London Transport operated 3,200 railway cars, 2,600 trams, 6,000 buses and coaches. All told these vehicles ran 537,000,000 miles a year and carried more than three and a half thousand million passengers. Through all the dangers and difficulties of war, London Transport has maintained an adequate and efficient service. FOR VICTORY G.P.D. 365/13/28 Object: locomotive, escalator, flag | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5168... | Go to resource |
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