Your Waste Rubber is Wanted for...
A type-only poster lists wartime uses of rubber: dinghies for airmen, tyres, gas masks, commando equipment, helmet shock absorbers, hospital air beds and others. Every use named is a military or medical need and none is a civilian one, so the list is a selective set of facts chosen to make handing in scrap rubber feel directly useful.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Stafford & Co. Ltd., Netherfield, Nottingham (issuing department not named on the sheet)
- 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, 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
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
H.M. Stationery Office (UK), printer Stafford & Co. Ltd., 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 44.
Text on the object
YOUR WASTE RUBBER is WANTED for RUBBER DINGHIES FOR AIRMEN · TYRES FOR AIRCRAFT, LORRIES & ARTILLERY GAS MASKS · EQUIPMENT FOR COMMANDOS & PARATROOPS · RUBBER BOOTS STEEL HELMET SHOCK ABSORBERS · DECK INSULATION ON WARSHIPS RUBBER MATS FOR GUN SITES · SEATS & RUBBER INSULATION FOR TANKS SURGICAL EQUIPMENT · AIR BEDS FOR HOSPITALS · MAE WEST LIFE BELTS ANTI-GAS MATERIALS · BARRAGE BALLOONS · INSULATION FOR ELECTRIC WIRE Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Stafford & Co., Ltd., Netherfield, Nottingham 51 - 2365
