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title: ATS as Signal Operators
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-ats-as-signal-operators-1939/
description: Three uniformed women work at signalling equipment beneath the large letters 'ATS' and the line 'ATS as Signal Operators'.
section: Collection
---

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[![ATS as Signal Operators, 1939 UK poster: Three uniformed women work at signalling equipment beneath the large letters 'ATS'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-ats-as-signal-operators-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-ats-as-signal-operators-1939.jpg)

# ATS as Signal Operators

Three uniformed women work at signalling equipment beneath the large letters 'ATS' and the line 'ATS as Signal Operators'. The text says operators send and receive messages 'swiftly, accurately'; the tell for glittering generalities is that those virtue words stand in for any detail of pay, terms or risk.

## 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

```
ATS
AS SIGNAL OPERATORS

Day and night, at home and abroad, ATS
operators send and receive messages,
swiftly, accurately...

PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY MULTI MACHINE PLATES LTD. LONDON E.C.4. 51-3715
```

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