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title: Please Let Passengers off the Car First - After All, One of Them Might be You!!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-please-let-passengers-off-the-car-first-fougasse-1939/
description: A hand-drawn cartoon shows a commuter with a briefcase rushing at a train door while another figure is pushed back.
section: Collection
---

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[![Please Let Passengers off the Car First - After All, One of Them Might be You!!, 1939 UK poster: A hand-drawn cartoon shows](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-please-let-passengers-off-the-car-first-fougasse-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-please-let-passengers-off-the-car-first-fougasse-1939.jpg)

# Please Let Passengers off the Car First - After All, One of Them Might be You!!

A hand-drawn cartoon shows a commuter with a briefcase rushing at a train door while another figure is pushed back, above hand-lettered text asking riders to let passengers off first. It is a transit courtesy notice, not a political message; the closest fit is plain-folks, since the address 'one of them might be you' and the everyman cartoon speak in an ordinary rider's register.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Please let passengers
off the car first

AFTER ALL, ONE OF
THEM MIGHT BE YOU!!

[signature:] Fougasse
[imprint:] FOSH & CROSS, LTD., LONDON  64K 125Xs 1500
```

[← Please Have Your Ticket Ready at the Barrier](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-please-have-your-ticket-ready-at-the-barrier-1939/) [Please Pass Along the Platform →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-please-pass-along-the-platform-london-transport-1939/)

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