For You to Produce Cold Someone Must Burn Fuel: Save Fuel for Battle! Accession Number: ARTV02016

Description

British Second World War proclamation-style poster highlighting the importance of saving fuel. This poster targets cooling and the fuel that it takes to cool something and encourages its audience to minimise the amount of cooling that they do in order to preserve fuel, thus reducing the amount of international shipping of oil required to fulfil military uses.

This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.

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Accession Number
ARTV02016
Publisher
Ministry of Fuel and Power
Printer
Wm. Brown & Co. Ltd.
Publisher
The National Cold Stores Committee
Classification
Art
Object Type
Poster
Measurement
Sheet: 76 x 51 cm
Medium
offset lithograph on paper
Date Made
1939-1945
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donated in 1946
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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