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title: 'Follow the Oldtimer''s advice: Produce the plus'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/follow-the-oldtimers-advice-1941/
description: 'Workplace poster: a smiling older machinist in overalls shakes hands with a younger worker carrying a lunch box.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Follow the Oldtimer's advice: Produce the plus, 1941 US poster: Workplace poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/follow-the-oldtimers-advice-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/follow-the-oldtimers-advice-1941.jpg)

# Follow the Oldtimer's advice: Produce the plus

Workplace poster: a smiling older machinist in overalls shakes hands with a younger worker carrying a lunch box, with advice in a panel reading 'Handle tools carefully, prevent accidents, avoid spoilage' and the slogan 'Produce the plus'. The older worker as trusted peer is a plain-folks and testimonial device; the message is practical conduct on the job.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Follow the
Oldtimer's advice
HANDLE TOOLS CAREFULLY
PREVENT ACCIDENTS
AVOID SPOILAGE
PRODUCE THE plus
[imprint: COPYRIGHT, INC., MANDEL ENGRAVING CO. & ART STUDIOS, INC., MILWAUKEE, WIS.]
[imprint: LITHO IN U. S. OF A.]
```

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