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title: ATS at the Wheel
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-ats-at-the-wheel-1939/
description: A photomontage places a smiling ATS driver in a vehicle cab against a stormy blue sky with bombs falling, under the line 'Ceaselessly new vehicles roll off
section: Collection
---

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[![ATS at the Wheel, 1939 UK poster: A photomontage places a smiling ATS driver in a vehicle cab against a stormy blue sky](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-ats-at-the-wheel-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-ats-at-the-wheel-1939.jpg)

# ATS at the Wheel

A photomontage places a smiling ATS driver in a vehicle cab against a stormy blue sky with bombs falling, under the line 'Ceaselessly new vehicles roll off the production lines. Army units await them, the ATS deliver them'. The tell for transfer is the setting: the bombs and the sky carry the war's urgency onto a routine driving job.

## 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

```
ATS AT THE WHEEL

Ceaselessly new vehicles roll off the production lines.
Army units await them, the ATS deliver them

BEVERLEY PICK

PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY FIELD SONS & CO. LTD., BRADFORD. 51-3715.
```

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