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title: Please Stand on the Right of the Escalator
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-please-stand-on-the-right-escalator-fougasse-1939/
description: A cartoon shows a long single file of commuters on an escalator, all standing on the right, with one figure wearing a learner 'L' plate on his coat.
section: Collection
---

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[![Please Stand on the Right of the Escalator, 1939 UK poster: A cartoon shows a long single file of commuters on an escalator](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-please-stand-on-the-right-escalator-fougasse-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-please-stand-on-the-right-escalator-fougasse-1939.jpg)

# Please Stand on the Right of the Escalator

A cartoon shows a long single file of commuters on an escalator, all standing on the right, with one figure wearing a learner 'L' plate on his coat. The tell is the everyday cartoon crowd as the model for behaviour, with the request resting on shared commuter norms rather than a stated argument. It is a courtesy notice from the Underground, 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 STAND ON THE RIGHT
OF THE ESCALATOR

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

[← Please Pass Down the Car: Someday You Might Want to Get in, Yourself!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-please-pass-down-the-car-fougasse-1939/) [We are Pledged to Smash the Fascist Barbarians →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-pledged-to-smash-fascist-barbarians-ussr-1939/)

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