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Help the Workers by Avoiding Rush-Hour Travel, 1939 UK poster: A clock face and a double-decker bus marked 'Travel between 10

Help the Workers by Avoiding Rush-Hour Travel

A clock face and a double-decker bus marked 'Travel between 10 & 4 - avoid rush hours', under 'Travel between times' and 'Help the workers by avoiding rush-hour travel'. The tell for glittering generalities is 'Help the workers' as the sole stated reason; the request (travel between 10 and 4) is concrete.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Glittering generalities
Date
1939
Period
Second World War
Made by
Thomas Tilling Group of Companies, England
Region
Western and Central Europe
Country
United Kingdom
Medium
Poster
Issuer type
Corporation
Regime
Churchill Government
Leader
Winston Churchill
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes
Home front, Labor
Event
World War II
Regime
Churchill wartime government
Leader
Winston Churchill
Source
Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights
Held by NARA, Unrestricted; UK private-firm wartime print, hosted by owner decision
Thomas Tilling Group of Companies, England. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-483.

Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

10
TRAVEL
BETWEEN
TIMES
4

TRAVEL Between 10 & 4 Avoid Rush-Hours [on the bus]

HELP THE WORKERS
by AVOIDING RUSH-HOUR TRAVEL

ISSUED BY THE THOMAS TILLING GROUP OF COMPANIES, ENGLAND

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