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title: They Need Your Waste Rubber!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-they-need-your-waste-rubber-dinghy-1939/
description: A photograph shows airmen scrambling onto and swimming beside an inflatable rubber dinghy in rough water, beside the headline 'They need your waste
section: Collection
---

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[![They Need Your Waste Rubber!, 1939 UK poster: A photograph shows airmen scrambling onto and swimming beside an inflatable](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-they-need-your-waste-rubber-dinghy-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-they-need-your-waste-rubber-dinghy-1939.jpg)

# They Need Your Waste Rubber!

A photograph shows airmen scrambling onto and swimming beside an inflatable rubber dinghy in rough water, beside the headline 'They need your waste rubber!'. The rescue scene carries the emotional weight of the aircrew onto the household's scrap rubber (transfer), and the peril at sea implies that withheld rubber costs lives (fear appeal).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
THEY
NEED
YOUR
WASTE
RUBBER
!

PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY J. WEINER LTD. LONDON, W.C.1
```

[← They Need Your Waste Rubber](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-they-need-your-waste-rubber-1939/) [They Talked... This Happened →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-they-talked-this-happened-1939/)

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