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title: Let's Go! Step it Up Boys!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-lets-go-step-it-up-boys-1939/
description: A twin-engine aircraft with RAF-style roundels banks above a long factory floor where workers in white and blue overalls assemble rows of aircraft.
section: Collection
---

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# Let's Go! Step it Up Boys!

A twin-engine aircraft with RAF-style roundels banks above a long factory floor where workers in white and blue overalls assemble rows of aircraft. The tell is the collective imperative 'Let's go!' addressed to the workforce, set against a scene of many people already at work, which invites the viewer to join the pace of the shop floor.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

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

```
LETS GO!
Step it up Boys!

Prepared and published under the auspices of the Advertising & Sales Club of Toronto and distributed under the authority of the Director-General of Aircraft Production
SAMPSON-MATTHEWS LIMITED, TORONTO
DONATED TO CANADA'S WAR EFFORT BY MACDONALD BROS. AIRCRAFT LIMITED, WINNIPEG, MAN.
```

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