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A large crowd of men and women walk through gates, the majority of the men push bicycles. The location of the photograph was originally thought to be somewhere in London, but it has since been identified as Spondon, Derby. The men and women are staff arriving at the British Celanese Factory. The photograph is taken from a foot bridge over the railway line looking towards the Moon Hotel (which can be seen in the far distance).
Streets and buildings
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Rush hour before the staggering of working hours
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.
Greater London
Transport
Cityscape
men, streets and buildings
1 | Publisher: | http://www.ltmcollection.org/ | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | ltmcollection.org/2005/1180 | Go to resource |
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