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title: Armoured Cars are Battle Spearhead
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/armoured-cars-are-battle-spearhead-1942/
description: A type-only poster gives a large headline and a quotation from BBC war correspondent Godfrey Talbot praising armoured cars in the Eighth Army's advance.
section: Collection
---

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# Armoured Cars are Battle Spearhead

A type-only poster gives a large headline and a quotation from BBC war correspondent Godfrey Talbot praising armoured cars in the Eighth Army's advance. The tell is the named broadcaster's vouching, dated to a BBC bulletin, in place of any figures or other evidence.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ARMOURED
CARS ARE
BATTLE
SPEARHEAD

Godfrey Talbot, B.B.C. War Correspondent
with the Eighth Army, says :—

“Tanks and Infantry and Guns have stolen most of
the picture in this campaign, but no one who has
seen this battle and our advance can speak too
highly of our Armoured Cars. They’ve travelled
far, fought well, and stood the strain well, definitely
proving their worth again and again in interception
and outflanking movements and chasing the
retreating enemy. They’ve been all the time a
major part of our advancing spearheads.”

B.B.C. NEWS BULLETIN, 27.11.1942

MINISTRY OF SUPPLY No. 53
```

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