--- title: British Aircraft Designers Keep the Lead url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-british-aircraft-designers-keep-the-lead-1942/ description: A pictorial chart compares the Wellington ('Best in 1939 - still going strong') and the Lancaster ('World's best heavy bomber to-day') by crew, speed. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. British Aircraft Designers Keep the Lead [![British Aircraft Designers Keep the Lead, 1942 UK poster: A pictorial chart compares the Wellington](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-british-aircraft-designers-keep-the-lead-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-british-aircraft-designers-keep-the-lead-1942.jpg) # British Aircraft Designers Keep the Lead A pictorial chart compares the Wellington ('Best in 1939 - still going strong') and the Lancaster ('World's best heavy bomber to-day') by crew, speed, bomb load and fuel, using figure, bomb and fuel-lorry icons. The tell for card-stacking is the comparison of two British types only, with 'world's best' asserted and no other nation's aircraft or losses shown. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` British Aircraft Designers keep the lead TWO FAMOUS BOMBERS WELLINGTON Best in 1939—still going strong LANCASTER World's best heavy bomber to-day AIR CREW MAXIMUM SPEED APPROX. 265 miles per hour APPROX. 300 miles per hour WELLINGTON Span—86 ft. 2 in. Length—61 ft. 3 in. LANCASTER Span—102 ft. 0 in. Length—69 ft. 6 in. MAXIMUM FUEL CAPACITY AND ENGINE POWER. The great Wellington Bomber with two Rolls Royce Merlin engines has a fuel capacity of 1000 gallons. The latest Lancaster has four Rolls Royce engines of newer design and over double the fuel capacity of the Wellington. The great Lancaster can be sent from London to Warsaw and back in a single flight. BOMB LOAD W 2 TONS BOMB LOAD L 8 TONS G.P.G. AU. 12 (F.1448). Wt.40914. 376. 12/42. Gp. 961. FOSH & CROSS LTD. ``` [← Britain - Spearhead of Attack](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-britain-spearhead-of-attack-1942/) [Careless Talk →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-careless-talk-crosses-telephone-1942/) ## 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) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [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). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.