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title: 'Share your car: help conserve transportation'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/share-your-car-conserve-transportation-1943/
description: 'Type-only poster: ''Share your car'' in huge red brush lettering under ''An official war message'', with ''Help conserve transportation'' in blue below.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Share your car: help conserve transportation, 1943 US poster: Type-only poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/share-your-car-conserve-transportation-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/share-your-car-conserve-transportation-1943.jpg)

# Share your car: help conserve transportation

Type-only poster: 'Share your car' in huge red brush lettering under 'An official war message', with 'Help conserve transportation' in blue below. There is no picture. The technique is faint here: the sheet relies on an official label and a short slogan to ask drivers to carpool.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
AN OFFICIAL WAR MESSAGE
SHARE
YOUR
CAR
HELP CONSERVE
TRANSPORTATION
DISTRIBUTED BY OWI FOR
OFFICE OF DEFENSE TRANSPORTATION
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1943-O-558331]
```

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