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title: The Forces Require All Your Scrap Rubber Now
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-forces-require-all-your-scrap-rubber-now-1939/
description: A large painted tyre sits beside a red panel with line drawings of a glove, a hot water bottle and tubing. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
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# The Forces Require All Your Scrap Rubber Now

A large painted tyre sits beside a red panel with line drawings of a glove, a hot water bottle and tubing. The headline says the armed forces need all scrap rubber 'now', an urgency claim that frames household rubber as a shortage in the fighting services.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Tyres retreaded from waste rubber

WASTE RUBBER HELPS RETREAD TYRES OF SERVICE VEHICLES.
TURN OUT YOUR OLD TYRES, TUBES AND HOT WATER BOTTLES.

THE FORCES REQUIRE ALL
YOUR SCRAP RUBBER NOW

FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY W. R. ROYLE & SON LTD. 51-3519
```

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