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title: Make Your Money Provide the Driving Power - Put it into the Post Office Savings Bank
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-make-your-money-driving-power-post-office-savings-bank-1939/
description: A painted scene shows soldiers in helmets firing mounted machine guns from armoured vehicles across a desert slope.
section: Collection
---

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# Make Your Money Provide the Driving Power - Put it into the Post Office Savings Bank

A painted scene shows soldiers in helmets firing mounted machine guns from armoured vehicles across a desert slope, under the headline 'Make your money provide the driving power'. The poster transfers the force and momentum of the fighting vehicles onto an ordinary deposit in the Post Office Savings Bank.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
MAKE YOUR MONEY
PROVIDE THE DRIVING POWER

PUT IT INTO
THE POST OFFICE
SAVINGS BANK

ROBBE.
P B. 48.
PRINTED BY FOSH & CROSS LTD., LONDON
```

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