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title: Send Airgraphs - They Save Aircraft Space and are Quicker!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-send-airgraphs-aircraft-space-cooper-multimachine-1943/
description: A stylised aircraft carries a reel of microfilm, beside a specimen airgraph form and its envelope shown at actual size.
section: Collection
---

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[![Send Airgraphs - They Save Aircraft Space and are Quicker!, 1943 UK poster: A stylised aircraft carries a reel of microfilm](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-send-airgraphs-aircraft-space-cooper-multimachine-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-send-airgraphs-aircraft-space-cooper-multimachine-1943.jpg)

# Send Airgraphs - They Save Aircraft Space and are Quicker!

A stylised aircraft carries a reel of microfilm, beside a specimen airgraph form and its envelope shown at actual size. The footer sets two selected figures side by side, 1600 airgraph letters on film at 5 oz against 1600 ordinary letters at 50 lb, giving only the weight argument for the service.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
send airgraphs
they save aircraft space and are quicker!

[specimen airgraph form:]
Write address in large BLOCK letters wholly within this panel
The address must NOT be typewritten.
TO:- 145670
L/Cpl. J. SMITH
'A' Company 6th Bn. BLANKSHIRES
M.E.F.
Write the message very plainly below this line.
Sender's Address: 209 SUNRISE HILL, GREATON, BLANKSHIRES
Date FEB. 10th 1943
DEAR JOHN,
MOTHER AND I ARE SO GLAD
[remaining body text illegible in the scan]
ALL THE BEST! LOOK AFTER
YOURSELF. DAD
This space should not be used.
MAKE SURE THAT THE ADDRESS IS WRITTEN IN LARGE BLOCK LETTERS IN THE PANEL ABOVE.

FILM
airgraph
ACTUAL SIZES

1600 AIRGRAPH letters on film weigh 5 oz.
1600 ORDINARY LETTERS weigh 50 lb.

AUSTIN COOPER
GPO
PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY MULTI MACHINE PLATES LTD. LONDON E.C.4. 51-3402
PRD. 290
```

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