Speed Up Loading and Unloading
Three workers in shirtsleeves roll a drum from a canal narrowboat while a crane hook hangs overhead and a second boat passes, under the slogan 'Speed up loading and unloading: now for a quicker turnround than ever before'. The tell for plain-folks is the ordinary dockside labourers shown as the people whose pace the request is aimed at.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- His Majesty's Stationery Office issue, printed by W. R. Royle & Son, Ltd.
- 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, Labor
- 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)
HMSO; printed by W. R. Royle & Son, Ltd., c. 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, World War II Foreign Posters (NAID 44267071).
Text on the object
SPEED UP LOADING AND UNLOADING NOW FOR A QUICKER TURNROUND THAN EVER BEFORE PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY W. R. ROYLE & SON LTD. 51-4473
