Content note: Colonial-era painted depiction of a Nigerian tin-mine labourer, in period style. This object is shown as it was published. Why
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.
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- British government poster for Nigeria (artist not named; printer's imprint illegible)
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Imperial War Museums (scan via Wikimedia Commons), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright expired, 50 years; PD-scan PD-UKGov per Wikimedia Commons)
Unknown author; British government poster c. 1939-1945. Imperial War Museums, Art.IWM PST 8268; scan via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
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.
