--- title: Match your tires! Make tires last url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/match-your-tires-army-conservation-1944/ description: Army instruction sheet with a large red headline over two paired tyres, three line drawings (check pressure, measure circumference. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Match your tires! Make tires last [![Match your tires! Make tires last, 1944 US poster: Army instruction sheet with a large red headline over two paired tyres](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/match-your-tires-army-conservation-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/match-your-tires-army-conservation-1944.jpg) # Match your tires! Make tires last Army instruction sheet with a large red headline over two paired tyres, three line drawings (check pressure, measure circumference, measure diameter) and nine numbered rules for matching tyres on a vehicle. It is almost entirely practical instruction; the only persuasive device is the SAVE conservation emblem lending the programme's authority (transfer). ## 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 ``` MATCH YOUR TIRES! U.S. ARMY SAVE CONSERVATION PROGRAM HERE'S WHAT TO DO- CHECK PRESSURE MEASURE CIRCUMFERENCE- OR- MEASURE DIAMETER 1 Make sure tires are inflated to exact specified pressures before measuring. 2 Measure circumference of inflated tires with steel tape. (Keep tape on center of tread all around tire.) OR...Measure outside diameter of inflated tires with gage. Make sure gage is across exact center of wheel. 3 TIRES THAT DIFFER BY MORE THAN 3/4" IN CIRCUMFERENCE OR 1/4" IN DIAMETER DO NOT MATCH. 4 All tires on a 4x4 or 6x6 must always match (be within 3/4" in circumference or 1/4" in diameter of each other), and should have the same tread design. 5 When duals match, as they always must, but are slightly different in size, use larger tire as outside dual. 6 NEVER INSTALL TIRE WITHOUT MEASURING TO MAKE SURE IT MATCHES TIRES ALREADY ON VEHICLE. 7 Measure tires on vehicle frequently. Synthetic and recapped tires, especially, do not wear uniformly. Tires that are matched when installed may not remain that way long. 8 Spare tires become oversized if not used. Use them! Measure tires frequently to make sure they match tires on vehicle-exchange if they don't. 9 USE MATCHED TIRES ONLY ON YOUR VEHICLE. Unmatched tires wear rapidly-damage gears, axles, shafts. MAKE TIRES LAST ARMY CONSERVATION PROJECT No. 92-O-11 [handwritten: Conservation - rubber] [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1944 588163] [show-through from reverse of sheet, illegible: INSTRUCTIONS for Posting] ``` [← Markings of U.S. chemical munitions](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/markings-of-us-chemical-munitions-1944/) [Men! 38-45 You can serve in the U.S. Coast Guard →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/men-38-45-you-can-serve-in-the-us-coast-guard-1944/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Clay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cylinder-nabonidus-ehulhul-inscription-555bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial) - [Glazed-brick panel with a striding lion, from Babylon (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ishtar-gate-panel-striding-lion-nebuchadnezzar-ii-604bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer) - [Limestone relief block of Ramesses II wearing the White Crown, a jubilee relief from his temple at Herakleopolis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jubilee-relief-ramesses-ii-herakleopolis-met-05-4-256/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). 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