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
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Supply salvage campaign (inferred from the imprint code 'M.O.S.S&R. 122'); printed for H.M. Stationery Office by J. Weiner Ltd
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
UK government poster; National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), WWII Foreign Posters, NAID 44266666.
Text on the object
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
