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title: 'Wanted: Scrap Metal...To Make Tanks, Shells, Guns'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/canada-wanted-scrap-metal-tanks-shells-guns-1939/
description: Household scrap (an iron, chains, a pan, pipe, a fork, a key) tumbles above a black 'WANTED Scrap Metal to make' banner, with a tank.
section: Collection
---

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[![Wanted: Scrap Metal...To Make Tanks, Shells, Guns, 1939 Canada poster: Household scrap](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-wanted-scrap-metal-tanks-shells-guns-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/canada-wanted-scrap-metal-tanks-shells-guns-1939.jpg)

# Wanted: Scrap Metal...To Make Tanks, Shells, Guns

Household scrap (an iron, chains, a pan, pipe, a fork, a key) tumbles above a black 'WANTED Scrap Metal to make' banner, with a tank, a shell and a gun below. The tell is the visual link between kitchen scrap and weapons (transfer); the bottom line directs readers to a local salvage committee.

## 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

```
WANTED
SCRAP METAL
TO MAKE

TANKS   SHELLS   GUNS

Surrey

Get in touch with your local salvage committee

ISSUED BY THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION FOR NATIONAL SALVAGE OFFICE, OTTAWA, UNDER AUTHORITY OF HONOURABLE J. T. THORSON, MINISTER OF NATIONAL WAR SERVICES. Printed in Canada. MS-2E
```

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