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title: Railway Equipment is War Equipment
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-railway-equipment-is-war-equipment-1939/
description: A rail yard viewed from above shows locomotives, gun barrels on flat wagons and tanks on trucks, under the headline 'Railway equipment is war equipment'
section: Collection
---

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# Railway Equipment is War Equipment

A rail yard viewed from above shows locomotives, gun barrels on flat wagons and tanks on trucks, under the headline 'Railway equipment is war equipment' and the line 'Guns, shells and bombs are not the only munitions of war'. The tell is the transfer of the status of munitions onto railway stock, shown carrying weapons, to ask for care of railway equipment.

## 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

```
RAILWAY EQUIPMENT
IS WAR EQUIPMENT

Guns, shells and bombs are not
the only munitions of war

[imprint:] FRED TAYLOR / JULY 1883 [digits uncertain] / PRINTED IN ENGLAND / WATERLOW & SONS LTD LONDON & DUNSTABLE
```

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