---
title: 'Your Tin makes ENGINE PARTS for army lorries: Thank you Nigeria!'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/your-tin-thank-you-nigeria-1939/
description: A two-panel poster. Above, a labourer directs a high-pressure water jet at a tin-bearing hillside beside a sluice; below, a long convoy of army lorries…
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Colonial-era painted depiction of a Nigerian tin-mine labourer, in period style. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Your Tin makes ENGINE PARTS for army lorries: Thank you Nigeria!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/your-tin-thank-you-nigeria-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/your-tin-thank-you-nigeria-1939.jpg)

# Your Tin makes ENGINE PARTS for army lorries: Thank you Nigeria!

A two-panel poster. Above, a labourer directs a high-pressure water jet at a tin-bearing hillside beside a sluice; below, a long convoy of army lorries with motorcycle outriders winds along a road. The printed line 'Your Tin makes ENGINE PARTS for army lorries' joins the two panels and 'Thank you Nigeria!' closes them, so the military convoy's standing is attached to the mining work shown above it.

## Text on the object

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

```
Your Tin makes ENGINE PARTS for army lorries

Thank you Nigeria!
[illegible: small printer's imprint at the lower left edge]
```

Display type in sentence case with 'ENGINE PARTS' in capitals; 'Thank you Nigeria!' is in red script. The small imprint at the foot is not legible in the committed image.

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