Yes, Of Course, Ring up the Capacity Office About it
A cartoon by Fougasse shows a manager seen from behind at a desk, pointing at a wall chart whose coloured lines have collapsed into a jagged crash, beneath the line 'Yes, of course, ring up the Capacity Office about it'. This is an instructional office-management cartoon rather than a persuasion piece; the nearest fit is fear-appeal, since the image implies the cost of not consulting the Capacity Office.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by W. R. Royle & Son Ltd.; artist Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Labor, Home front
- 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
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; British wartime government-series sheet (no named issuer), hosted by owner decision
Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by W. R. Royle & Son Ltd.; artist Fougasse. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-540.
Text on the object
Yes, of course, ring up the CAPACITY OFFICE about it [signature:] Fougasse [imprint:] Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by W. R. Royle & Son Ltd., 51-3481
