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title: To Those Who Can Choose Their Travelling Hours
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-to-those-who-can-choose-their-travelling-hours-1941/
description: A narrow poster shows shoppers with a baby and parcels on the left and a bus conductress helping a passenger on the right, with four lines.
section: Collection
---

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[![To Those Who Can Choose Their Travelling Hours, 1941 UK poster: A narrow poster shows shoppers with a baby and parcels](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-to-those-who-can-choose-their-travelling-hours-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-to-those-who-can-choose-their-travelling-hours-1941.jpg)

# To Those Who Can Choose Their Travelling Hours

A narrow poster shows shoppers with a baby and parcels on the left and a bus conductress helping a passenger on the right, with four lines: start after 10, be back by 4, war-workers must be carried if 'we mean to win the war'. The appeal asks the reader to join a shared national aim ('we mean'), with a concrete timetable as the requested action.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
TO THOSE WHO CAN CHOOSE THEIR TRAVELLING HOURS

Don't start the trip till after 10
Be back again by 4
War-workers must be carried if
We mean to win the war

Issued by the Ministry of War Transport and Ministry of Labour and National Service
Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Wm. Brown & Co. Ltd., London E.C.3 51-9597
```

[← The Straggler Invites Attack](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-straggler-invites-attack-air-diagram-1296-1941/) [Warship Week →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-warship-week-1941/)

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