The Battle for Fuel (banner strip)
A narrow strip of white capital letters on a red brushstroke reads 'The Battle for Fuel', with no other text or image. The tell is the war word 'battle' applied to household and industrial fuel use, which transfers military urgency to a conservation campaign; the strip carries no instruction or claim by itself.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Government fuel-saving campaign (no sponsor or imprint visible; faint printer's slug at right edge)
- 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, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- 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 expired); NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Government fuel-saving campaign (no sponsor or imprint visible; faint printer's slug at right edge). National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-428ab.
Text on the object
THE BATTLE FOR FUEL [printer's slug, faint, right edge:] THE BATTLE FOR FUEL 56 V 10 No 2
