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title: I Need Your Scrap Metal
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-i-need-your-scrap-metal-salvage-1939/
description: A brown and blue drawing of a beret-wearing tank soldier saluting with one hand and holding out the other palm up sits under 'I need your SCRAP METAL'.
section: Collection
---

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[![I Need Your Scrap Metal, 1939 UK poster: A brown and blue drawing of a beret-wearing tank soldier saluting with one hand](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-i-need-your-scrap-metal-salvage-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-i-need-your-scrap-metal-salvage-1939.jpg)

# I Need Your Scrap Metal

A brown and blue drawing of a beret-wearing tank soldier saluting with one hand and holding out the other palm up sits under 'I need your SCRAP METAL'. A panel lists what the metal becomes: tanks, guns, ships, shells, bombs and more. The tells are transfer (a serviceman makes the personal request) and a one-sided list of end uses that names only weapons.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
I need your
SCRAP
METAL

PUT OUT YOUR SCRAP METAL FOR SALVAGE
to make Tanks · Guns · Ships · Shells · Bombs
Machine Guns · Grenades · Cartridges · Bullets
Mines · Steel Helmets · Torpedoes · Rifles etc.

PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY J. WEINER LTD., LONDON, W.C.1. 51-3747
M.O.S.S&R. 122
```

[← I Need Bones for Explosives](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-i-need-bones-for-explosives-1939/) [I'm Fighting Food Says Potato Pete →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-im-fighting-food-says-potato-pete-1939/)

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