Troublesome Engines (1950)

The Rev. W. Awdry’s Troublesome Engines centred on a Christianised notion of moral economy, in which industrial action was pitted against unitary righteous authority.

Left-to-right: James, Gordon, and Henry refuse to work, despite the Fat Controller’s entreaties, in ‘Trouble in the Shed’ (Egmont).

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This post is part of the ‘Rewound’ series of analyses of objects or episodes from cultural and political history.