Please Pass Along the Platform
A cartoon shows a dense crowd of commuters spilling from a Tube train onto a platform, with the line 'The more we are together, the more uncomfortable we'll be.' This is an instructional notice, not a persuasion campaign; the closest fit is plain-folks, since it uses an ordinary commuter's 'we' and humour as its warrant.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- London Transport (Underground roundel); artist Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird); printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd, London
- 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
- 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 (publication 1939-1945, UK origin)
London Transport; artist Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird); printed by Fosh & Cross Ltd. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-446.
Text on the object
The more we are together, the more uncomfortable we'll be. PLEASE PASS ALONG THE PLATFORM [signature:] Fougasse [imprint:] 644 1257 x 1500 - FOSH & CROSS, LTD., LONDON.
