The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This Australian Second World War poster was created by General Motors Holden (GMH), likely for display in one of their Australian factories.
This poster was aimed to illustrate the importance of munitions workers as 'production soldiers' who, together with soldiers, make up a 'team'. Team work, as the poster is entitled, refers to the team that both the munitions workers and soldiers form.
The poster, composed in the modernist, realist style is approximately divided horizontally into two halves. On the left is a munitions workers - identifiable by his headgear, and behind him is a silhouette of a factory, with a smoke plume emerging from its two chimneys. The worker, as with the soldier, are both standing with Grecian serpentine, contraposto posture, alluding to a sense of uniformity. The munitions worker is handing the soldier a replacement drum magazine for the soldier's Thomson sub machine gun, which points to the right of the poster. On the right hand side of the poster is the soldier, also identifiable by his headgear (a standard-issue Allied steel helmet), holding his Thomson sub machine gun. In the background on the right hand side is a silhouette of an explosion. The smoke from the explosion melds in to meet the smoke from the factory in the background.
During the Second World War, GMH re-tooled and produced vehicle components, field guns, aircraft, and engines to assist with the war effort.
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