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title: 'Please Pass Down the Car: Someday You Might Want to Get in, Yourself!'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-please-pass-down-the-car-fougasse-1939/
description: A cartoon shows a packed Underground car doorway of scowling passengers while a lone commuter on the platform loses his hat and case.
section: Collection
---

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[![Please Pass Down the Car: Someday You Might Want to Get in, Yourself!, 1939 UK poster: A cartoon shows a packed Underground](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-please-pass-down-the-car-fougasse-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-please-pass-down-the-car-fougasse-1939.jpg)

# Please Pass Down the Car: Someday You Might Want to Get in, Yourself!

A cartoon shows a packed Underground car doorway of scowling passengers while a lone commuter on the platform loses his hat and case. The tell is the everyman cartoon figure standing in for the viewer, with the appeal ('someday you might want to get in, yourself') resting on shared commuter identity rather than a stated argument. It is a wartime travel-courtesy notice, not a combat message.

## 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

```
Fougasse

Please pass down the car:

__ SOMEDAY YOU MIGHT
WANT TO GET IN, YOURSELF!

[imprint:] FOSH & CROSS, LTD., LONDON
```

[← Please Pass Along the Platform](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-please-pass-along-the-platform-london-transport-1939/) [Please Stand on the Right of the Escalator →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-please-stand-on-the-right-escalator-fougasse-1939/)

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