B/W print; Interior of a Q35-stock District line car featuring seating upholstered in the moquette pattern produced by Holdsworth & Co for the Hammersmith & City line by Topical Press, 11 Oct 1944

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Reference number	1998/69376
Description	Interior of a Q35-stock District line car featuring seating upholstered in the moquette pattern produced by Holdsworth & Co for the Hammersmith & City line. This car, No 8784, was provided as an experiment with 'daylight' fluorescent electric lighting which was new at the time. Twelve 2ft long tubes were fitted to each side of the car. The seating was also reupholstered using the 1935 style moquette. The windows are fitted with wartime anti-blast netting. A recruiting poster for station staff is pasted to the draught screen, foreground right. Several 'passengers' can be seen, but this is almost certainly a posed shot.
Photographer	Topical Press
Dates	11 Oct 1944
Collection	Photographs
Object type	B/w print
Photograph number	U36280
Location	Acton Depot
Topics	Underground trains
Completeness	71% 71% ?

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  Descriptive size	8x6ins

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  LT poster: Required Men & women as station porters. Full or part-time. To work varying shifts and on Sundays as required Advert: PR Tablets. Pain reliever Advert: Through Cystex thousands have found speedy relief from rheumatic pains aching joints & limbs backache, lumbago, disturbed rest etc. Cystex the kidney tonic Advert: Abbey National Building Society Advert: Brooklax chocolate laxative Advert: Callard & Bowser's Cream Line Toffee

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  Photographer	Topical Press, 11 Oct 1944

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  Location	Ealing Common depot, Ealing, W5