Great Britain's War Industries Are Geared for Victory
A pictograph of aircraft silhouettes (each equal to 100 planes) shows 20 planes arriving 'IN' to Britain and 80 leaving 'OUT', under the headline 'Great Britain's war industries are geared for victory'. The tell for card-stacking is a single export-versus-import comparison with no production, loss or source figures; 'geared for victory' is the broad virtue phrase.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- British Information Service, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York (imprint, partly faint)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- 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
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; UK Crown-era wartime publication, hosted by owner decision
British Information Service, New York. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-192b.
Text on the object
GREAT BRITAIN'S WAR INDUSTRIES ARE GEARED FOR VICTORY During 1941 Great Britain sent out of the country over four times as many planes as she brought in EACH [plane] = 100 PLANES IN OUT During 1942 she will continue to export more war machines than she imports [imprint, faint:] BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICE 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA NEW YORK, N. Y.
