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title: Help to Win the Battle for Fuel (Do All You Can to Save Coal, Coke, Gas, Electricity and Paraffin)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-help-to-win-the-battle-for-fuel-do-all-you-can-1942/
description: A text-only poster reading 'Do all you can to save coal, coke, gas, electricity and paraffin' above a red brush stroke carrying 'Help to win the Battle
section: Collection
---

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[![Help to Win the Battle for Fuel, 1942 UK poster: A text-only poster reading 'Do all you can to save coal, coke, gas](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-help-to-win-the-battle-for-fuel-do-all-you-can-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-help-to-win-the-battle-for-fuel-do-all-you-can-1942.jpg)

# Help to Win the Battle for Fuel (Do All You Can to Save Coal, Coke, Gas, Electricity and Paraffin)

A text-only poster reading 'Do all you can to save coal, coke, gas, electricity and paraffin' above a red brush stroke carrying 'Help to win the Battle for Fuel'. The tell is the open-ended 'do all you can' with no target figure and a war metaphor ('battle') for household saving.

## 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

```
Do all you can
to save coal, coke, gas,
electricity and paraffin

HELP TO WIN THE BATTLE FOR FUEL

[imprint:] (F.1199). Wt.26165 1600. 9/42 Gp. 961. FOSH & CROSS LTD.
```

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