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title: Switch Off - Stop It - Turn Off - Save Fuel for Battle!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-power-eats-fuel-switch-off-save-fuel-for-battle-1942/
description: Four panels show a workman painting wall-size slogans ('Power eats fuel - switch off', 'Steam swallows fuel - stop it'.
section: Collection
---

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# Switch Off - Stop It - Turn Off - Save Fuel for Battle!

Four panels show a workman painting wall-size slogans ('Power eats fuel - switch off', 'Steam swallows fuel - stop it', 'Heat devours fuel - turn off') and then leaving in the dark after a 'blue-pencil lights' joke. The tell for transfer is the closing slogan 'Save fuel for battle!', which ties ordinary switching-off to the fighting forces.

## 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

```
POWER EATS
FUEL-SWITCH OFF
WHEN YOU'RE
NOT USING IT!

STEAM SWALLOWS
FUEL-STOP IT
FROM LEAKING
OR ESCAPING

HEAT DEVOURS
FUEL-TURN OFF
WHEN YOU DON'T
NEED IT !

-and don't forget
to switch-out
the blue-pencil
lights!

SAVE FUEL FOR BATTLE!

Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Stafford & Co., Ltd., Netherfield, Nottingham. 51-4556
ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER
```

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