Another car the boys overseas failed to receive!
Two-colour poster of a gondola rail car marked 'S.C.R.A.P.' heaped with tangled wire, under the headline 'Another car the boys overseas failed to receive!' and a box reading 'make it RIGHT the FIRST time'. Overseas troops are named as the people who lose out when production is faulty, a guilt-based appeal aimed at war workers.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- General Cable Corporation (scrap-quality campaign)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Labor, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
General Cable Corporation. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-405 (NAID 513856).
Text on the object
ANOTHER CAR THE BOYS OVERSEAS FAILED TO RECEIVE ! S.C.R.A.P. make it RIGHT the FIRST time [imprint:] COPR. 1944 GENERAL CABLE CORPORATION
