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title: 'Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 9: Armoured cars in the Coronation parade, Kuala Lumpur (Tamil photo poster distributed in Malaya)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/malaya-today-set-d-9-coronation-parade-armoured-cars-tamil-1953/
description: A photograph of an armoured car and a following truck driving past a decorated grandstand and an arch topped with a crown and the cipher 'E II R'
section: Collection
---

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# Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 9: Armoured cars in the Coronation parade, Kuala Lumpur (Tamil photo poster distributed in Malaya)

A photograph of an armoured car and a following truck driving past a decorated grandstand and an arch topped with a crown and the cipher 'E II R' (partly legible) and the words 'LONG LIVE THE QUEEN', in front of a Moorish-style government building. The Tamil caption says the armoured car units are passing in the coronation parade at Kuala Lumpur. The tell is transfer: the crown, the arch and the ceremony attach royal prestige to the Malayan military.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
இன்றைய மலாயா  படத்தொகுதி ஈ  பெடரேஷன் இராணுவப் படை

கோலாலம்பூரில் நடந்த மகுடாபிஷேக அணிவகுப்பில் கவச மோட்டார்படைகள் செல்லும் காட்சி.

[9]

Text inside the photograph: LONG LIVE THE QUEEN; LE CATEAU; 42 ZS 39; 48YZ208
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Today's Malaya  Picture Set [D]  Federation Army

Scene of the armoured motor units passing in the coronation parade held in Kuala Lumpur.

[9]

Text inside the photograph (English, as printed): LONG LIVE THE QUEEN; LE CATEAU; 42 ZS 39; 48YZ208
```

Header reads 'Today's Malaya, Picture Set [D], Federation Army'. The English lettering is part of the photograph.

[← Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 9: Armoured cars at the coronation-day parade in Kuala Lumpur (Malay Jawi-script photo poster distributed in Malaya)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/malaya-today-set-d-9-coronation-parade-armoured-cars-malay-1953/) [Malaya Today, Picture Set D, no. 9: Federation Armoured Corps vehicles in the Coronation parade, Kuala Lumpur (English photo poster distributed in Malaya) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/malaya-today-set-d-9-coronation-parade-kuala-lumpur-english-1953/)

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