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title: Here's a Challenge! Can You Beat This Record?
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-heres-a-challenge-can-you-beat-this-record-1939/
description: A photographic cut-out of a grinning rivetter with a pneumatic hammer sits above a photo of the named eight-person gang and the finished ship.
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[![Here's a Challenge! Can You Beat This Record?, 1939 Canada poster: A photographic cut-out of a grinning rivetter](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-heres-a-challenge-can-you-beat-this-record-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-heres-a-challenge-can-you-beat-this-record-1939.jpg)

# Here's a Challenge! Can You Beat This Record?

A photographic cut-out of a grinning rivetter with a pneumatic hammer sits above a photo of the named eight-person gang and the finished ship, with the claim of 2,523 rivets in an 8-hour shift at Yarrows Ltd., Victoria, B.C. The tells: plain-folks (named ordinary workers presented as the model) and bandwagon (a record set by peers, with the question 'Can you beat this Record?').

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
HERE'S A CHALLENGE!
2523 RIVETS
IN 8 HOUR SHIFT
5/8 INCH FLUSH COUNTERSUNK
TESTED BY NAVAL INSPECTORS

THE GANG THAT SET NEW CANADIAN RECORD
Left to Right—G. A. Sage, reamer; F. Corkery, reamer's helper; Peggy Miguez, passer girl; Charlie (Tiny) Rance, 6 foot 2, riveter; Helen Ignash, passer girl; George Thomas, heater; P. Stephenson, heater, and D. L. Robertson, holder-on.

YARD
Yarrows Ltd. - Victoria, B.C.
GANG
RIVETING BOSS . . . RIVETER
REAMER & HELPER . . . HOLDER ON
2 HEATERS . . . 2 PASSERS—

HERE'S THE FINISHED JOB

Can you beat this Record?

This message is issued by the Department of Munitions and Supply for Canada
```

[← Explosives: The Power That Wins Wars. Count on them to put it where it hurts most!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-explosives-power-that-wins-wars-1939/) [Il y a des armes ... dans ce tas de ferraille derrière la grange \[There are weapons in this scrap heap behind the barn\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-il-y-a-des-armes-ferraille-derriere-la-grange-french-1939/)

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