Send airgraphs - they save aircraft space
A narrow banner in blue, grey and red brush lettering reads 'send airgraphs - they save aircraft space', with 'aircraft' picked out in red. The single reason given, saving cargo space on aircraft, is offered with no mention of the service's other features, such as cost or delay (card-stacking).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- His Majesty's Stationery Office for the General Post Office (GPO); artist Austin Cooper; printed by Stafford & Co., Ltd., Nottingham
- 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, 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, RG 44.
Text on the object
send airgraphs they save aircraft space AUSTIN COOPER Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Stafford & Co., Ltd., Netherfield, Nottingham. 51-2544 P.R.D. 272
