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Billy Brown of London Town was a cartoon character, drawn by David Langdon, who featured on London Transport posters during World War II. Brown's appearance was that of a City of London businessman of the time, wearing a bowler hat and pinstripe suit, and carrying an umbrella.
Posters
One example of a London Underground poster showed a passenger peeling back tape placed on train windows:
One commuter replied by writing
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".
Another example of a bus poster had him waving a white object:
Billy Brown was also a mascot on sorties over Berlin during the war, with the advice "I trust it suffers no deflection, this stuff is for the Hun's correction" (i.e. Adolf Hitler.).
Billy Brown's good deeds were not always welcomed by some. The Daily Mail later quoted: