It is authoritatively reported that owing to the congestion of traffic in the Grimsby fish docks and the lack of adequate facilities to cope with the floating trade of the port, damage to the extent of £100,000 per year is done to the fishing fleet. However, in the text containing the earliest occurrence of this noun that I have found, the plural queue-jumpers is not applied to persons but to ships-this text is Grimsby’s Congestion, published in the Fleetwood Chronicle (Fleetwood, Lancashire, England) of Friday 8 th October 1920: – figuratively: a person who obtains unfair priority over others. – literally: a person who pushes forward out of turn in a queue But in view of the almost unanimous public demand, queues will be introduced wherever London Transport is satisfied that they are needed and can be worked. In a few instances, London Transport adds, queues have been abandoned after experience has shown them to be disadvantageous. Jumping a bus before it arrives at the recognised stopping place is not allowed.
It should be pointed out that the regulation under which queues are formed is duly legalised, and provides a penalty for anyone who disobeys the rule of the queue. But as is evident there are difficulties in carrying out the suggestion at this point. In the discussion of the grievances of passengers in the columns of your paper, the suggestion has been made that waiting passengers should be made to form in a queue at this point. Each stopping place must be considered on its merits.” Perhaps that is why such close attention has been paid this week to the stopping place on East Croydon bridge. There can be no broad rules governing the extension of queueing. “The policy of London Transport,” says this statement, “is to extend the queue system as and where it is practicable to do so. So at all events says London Passenger Transport Board, in one of its publicity sheets which tells of the number of people who have written to thank the Board for its decision to extend the queue system for road vehicles. And not only that, but Londoners like it. Now, the queue, like the poor, is always with us. Such a scheme was described in a letter to the Editor, published in The Croydon Advertiser and Surrey County Reporter (London, England) of Friday 17 th February 1939:īefore the War the queue was practically unknown, and you could floor ninety-nine men out of every hundred by asking them to spell it. Of British-English origin, the nouns queue-jumper and queue-jumping, the verb and noun queue-jump and the phrase to jump the queue have especially been used since the 1930s in relation to compulsory queueing schemes implemented by public-transport authorities.
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