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Description: | Eileen Payne worked for London Transport until 1951. She had joined the company at the start of the Second World War.
Since so many men were needed to fight in the war in Europe, the British government had introduced the draft. This obliged all men between 18 and 50 to join the army, the navy or the air force.
By 1941, women were also being drafted. They were not being sent overseas to fight, though. Instead, most went to work in vital industries like weapons manufacture or transport. While Eileen enjoyed her work on the buses, she recalls that sometimes the work was dirty and monotonous. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport London at War Work | Temporal: | 1940-1949 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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