Fork Truck Safety Tips (Series 3)
Four-panel cartoon safety sheet for fork-truck drivers: a truck towing a freight car, an overloaded truck tipping with three men aboard, a worker puzzling over a stripped-down truck, and a truck bouncing over rails. Each panel has a one-line rule. The technique is faint here: the comic crashes carry a mild fear-appeal, but the sheet is mainly instruction.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department (artist Brander, USNR)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-828C (NAID 514322).
Text on the object
FORK TRUCK SAFETY TIPS (SERIES 3) Never tow freight cars with fork trucks . . . they'll finish by towing you. Don't overload your truck . . . lighten loads instead of counterweighting. Don't attempt "minor" repairs . . . call a qualified repairman. Drive s-l-o-w-l-y over railroad tracks and rough surfaces. [signature:] BRANDER USNR [imprint:] BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS, NAVY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C. [imprint:] ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—602427
