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title: Careful Packing Aids Victory
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-careful-packing-aids-victory-1939/
description: Two hands hold a hammer and drive a nail above the slogan 'Careful packing aids victory...'. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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[![Careful Packing Aids Victory, 1939 UK poster: Two hands hold a hammer and drive a nail above the slogan 'Careful packing aids](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-careful-packing-aids-victory-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-careful-packing-aids-victory-1939.jpg)

# Careful Packing Aids Victory

Two hands hold a hammer and drive a nail above the slogan 'Careful packing aids victory...'. The tell for glittering-generalities is the virtue word 'victory' attached to a practical task, with no figure given for what packing saves; the poster is otherwise an instruction to pack goods properly.

## 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

```
CAREFUL PACKING AIDS VICTORY...
```

[← Can I Do Without It? Less Shopping Means More Shipping!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-can-i-do-without-it-less-shopping-more-shipping-1939/) [Careless Talk Costs Lives (Fougasse: "...but of course it mustn't go any further!") →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-careless-talk-costs-lives-fougasse-train-1939/)

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