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An example of a bus poster had him saying "Kindly pass along the bus and so make room for all of us" because passengers clustered around doors. A graffiti reply read "That's alright without a doubt, but how the H–ll do we get out".
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during the war, with the advice "I trust it suffers no deflection, this stuff is for the Hun's correction" (i.e.
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poster showed a passenger peeling back tape placed on train windows:
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I thank you for the information but I can’t see my bloody station.
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Billy Brown's good deeds were not always welcomed by some. The
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Another example of a bus poster had him waving a white object:
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A collection of David Langdon's Billy Brown posters
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BBC - WW2 People's War - BILLY BROWN OF LONDON TOWN
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David Langdon
London Transport
World War II
City of London
bowler hat
pinstripe suit
London Underground
blackouts
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Daily Mail


Langdon, David
Archived
Wayback Machine
British Cartoon Archive
University of Kent






BBC - WW2 People's War - BILLY BROWN OF LONDON TOWN
BBC
ISBN
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ISBN
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