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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- His Majesty's Stationery Office for the General Post Office (GPO); artist Austin Cooper; printed by Multi Machine Plates 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, Science and technology
- 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)
His Majesty's Stationery Office / General Post Office; artist Austin Cooper; printer Multi Machine Plates Ltd. US National Archives, WWII Foreign Posters (NAID 44267051, 44-PF-387).
Text on the object
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
