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title: 'Britain''s Mechanised Army on the March: Keep Going with War Savings'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/britains-mechanised-army-on-the-march-war-savings-1939/
description: Four line drawings of a tank, a supply truck, an artillery tractor and an armoured car carry captions on what each vehicle does.
section: Collection
---

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[![Britain's Mechanised Army on the March: Keep Going with War Savings, 1939 UK poster: Four line drawings of a tank, a supply](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/britains-mechanised-army-on-the-march-war-savings-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/britains-mechanised-army-on-the-march-war-savings-1939.jpg)

# Britain's Mechanised Army on the March: Keep Going with War Savings

Four line drawings of a tank, a supply truck, an artillery tractor and an armoured car carry captions on what each vehicle does, above the slogan 'Keep going with War Savings'. The army's equipment is shown as the thing savings pay for, linking the request to the vehicles' strength (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
BRITAIN'S MECHANISED ARMY
on the march

TANKS ARE THE WEIGHT OF THE ATTACK. MASSIVELY ARMOURED, "TRACKED" FOR MOBILITY.

TRUCKS BRING UP THE SUPPLIES—FAST, ROOMY, BUT RUGGEDLY BUILT.

ARTILLERY TOWING TRACTOR (THE "QUAD") CARRIES GUN CREWS AND AMMUNITION.

ARMOURED CARS FOR RECONNAISSANCE AND PATROL—NOTE THE HIGH GROUND CLEARANCE FOR CROSSING ROUGH COUNTRY.

KEEP GOING WITH
WAR SAVINGS

W.F.P. 358. Issued by the National Savings Committee, London. Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh. Ulster Savings Committee, Belfast.  Crown Copyright Reserved
PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY W. R. ROYLE & SON, LTD. 51-4539
```

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