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- GLC#
- GLC09654.35-View header record
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- 1941-1945
- Author/Creator
- Autocar
- Title
- Gangway for Victory!
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 poster Height: 58.3 cm, Width: 43.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- Sub-Era
- World War II
One poster entitled "Gangway for Victory!" printed by Autocar, dated 1941-1945. Poster features an Autocar half-track exiting a ship onto a beach. In the background soldiers wade in the water. The poster advertises Autocar's work in the war effort. The poster reads in part, "Victory is a great teacher. When the war is won, this heavy-duty fighting will be transformed into heavy-duty, low-cost-per-mile transportation - these heavy-duty fighters into the heavy-duty trucks that bear a famous name." The artwork used in the poster is signed E. George Roland. It also has the title of the poster in pencil on the back.
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