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Description: | A crowd of men and women walk through gates, most of men pushing bicycles.
The photo, captioned 'The traffic surge', shows congestion at peak times in the mid-1930s. Most workers arrived at work in the mornings and clocked off at the same time.
This image illustrated an article about staggering working hours in wartime. Railway companies introduced staggered working hours in 1941-42 during the Second World War. They sometimes needed to alter the clocking in and out times of the 100,000 specialist workers by just 15 minutes to ease the intolerable rush-hour peaks. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport Cityscape Work | Temporal: | circa 1935 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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