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
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Supply (poster No. 53), quoting BBC war correspondent Godfrey Talbot; printed for HMSO by Fosh & Cross Ltd
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
Ministry of Supply / HMSO, 1942 or later. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 44.
Text on the object
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
