Please Have Your Ticket Ready at the Barrier
A cartoon crowd of civilians and service personnel queues behind a woman fumbling for her ticket at a barrier, with the caption 'Isn't it lucky I'm not in a hurry?' above 'Please have your ticket ready at the barrier'. The tell is the everyday commuter caricature and the gentle humour, which present the request as ordinary courtesy among fellow travellers.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- London Passenger Transport Board (London Transport), artist Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird), printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- World War II
- 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; hosted by owner decision (UK wartime poster, c. 1939-1945)
London Passenger Transport Board (London Transport), artist Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird), printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd, National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-245.
Text on the object
"Isn't it lucky I'm not in a hurry?" PLEASE HAVE YOUR TICKET READY AT THE BARRIER [signed:] Fougasse [imprint:] F.& C. Ltd.
