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Description: | At the outbreak of the First World War, 300 London buses and 330 drivers were commandeered to help with the war effort. Operators had to restore old buses and return horse-drawn vehicles to the streets in order to keep London moving. Services in the city became extremely limited, especially with the introduction of petrol rationing in 1916.
One account of travelling in London in 1917 reads: "Getting home during rush hour was a daily terror ... the scramble to get into some of the longer distance trams and omnibuses constituted a bear fight ..."
The police had to withdraw rules against passengers standing in an attempt to ease congestion. Safety leaflets, like this one designed by Albert E Fruin, were particularly important to maintain safety while the service was so overcrowded. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport | Temporal: | 1919 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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