Send Airgraphs - They Save Aircraft Space
A mail sack marked '1600 letters 50 lbs' stands beside a film spool marked '1600 airgraphs 5 ozs', with two aircraft overhead and an airgraph form below. The poster rests its case on one comparison, weight, and leaves out cost, delay and photographic processing (card-stacking).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- His Majesty's Stationery Office (Ministry of Information / Post Office airgraph service); artist Sarg; printer Haycock Press, 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; artist Sarg; printed by Haycock Press, London, c. 1941-1945. US National Archives (NARA ID 44267049, 44-PF-386).
Text on the object
send airgraphs 1600 LETTERS 50 lbs AIR MAIL 1600 airgraphs 5 ozs Write address in large BLOCK letters wholly within this panel The address must NOT be typewritten. TO:- Write the message very plainly below Sender's Address THEY SAVE AIRCRAFT SPACE Sarg
