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title: We Must Get an Even Quicker Turnround
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-we-must-get-an-even-quicker-turnround-1939/
description: Large red and black lettering spells 'Quicker Turnround' around an outlined red Q and T, with the line 'Speed up loading and unloading!' beneath.
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[![We Must Get an Even Quicker Turnround, 1939 UK poster: Large red and black lettering spells 'Quicker Turnround' around](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-we-must-get-an-even-quicker-turnround-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-we-must-get-an-even-quicker-turnround-1939.jpg)

# We Must Get an Even Quicker Turnround

Large red and black lettering spells 'Quicker Turnround' around an outlined red Q and T, with the line 'Speed up loading and unloading!' beneath. The first-person 'We must' fuses the reader with the shipping effort (identity-fusion), and the oversized initials turn the request into a slogan with no figures or evidence attached.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/)

## Text on the object

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

```
WE MUST GET AN EVEN
QUICKER
TURNROUND
SPEED UP LOADING AND UNLOADING!
ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF WAR TRANSPORT
PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY FOSH & CROSS LTD., LONDON (51/2938)
[stamp:] INCLOSURE 20 TO REPORT No. 52225 MILITARY ATTACHE, LONDON
```

[← We Have the Men, We Have the Tanks, To Move Them We Must Have Jerricans](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-we-have-the-men-tanks-jerricans-1939/) [We Save for Victory Through Our Village Savings Group →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-we-save-for-victory-village-savings-group-1939/)

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