Place | North & Central America: Canada |
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Accession Number | ARTV06514 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | sheet: 81.4 x 63.6 cm |
Object type | Poster |
Physical description | photolithograph on paper |
Maker |
Turner, Charles Edward National Steel Car Corporation, Ltd |
Place made | United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London |
Date made | c.1946 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: External copyright |
Less than enough, and we lose
Description
Canadian war poster with text taken from an address by Ralph P Bell, Director-General, Aircraft Production Branch, Department of Munitions & Supply, Canada, on the occasion of the visit of the Lancaster bomber, August 31, 1942, to the Malton Plant of National Steel Car Corporation, Limited in Canada, where Lancasters were soon to be produced. The poster was distributed in the interest of Canada's war effort. The poster depicts two Lancaster bombers flying overhead, and is taken from the painting by C E Turner in the Illustrated London News.