Retailers' Pooled Delivery Service
Large lettering announces a 'Retailers' Pooled Delivery Service' under the royal arms and the names of three ministries, with the reason given as economy in man-power, rubber and petrol. The arms and ministry names lend official authority to a voluntary trade arrangement (transfer); the stated reasons are unquantified.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of War Transport, Ministry of Food and Board of Trade; printed for H.M. Stationery Office by J. Weiner Ltd., London
- 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, Economy and finance
- 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)
Ministry of War Transport, Ministry of Food, Board of Trade; printed for HMSO by J. Weiner Ltd., 1941 or later. U.S. National Archives, RG 44.
Text on the object
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE MINISTRY OF WAR TRANSPORT THE MINISTRY OF FOOD AND THE BOARD OF TRADE RETAILERS' POOLED DELIVERY SERVICE For economy in man-power, in rubber, in petrol. PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY J. WEINER LTD., LONDON, W.C.1. 51-2298
