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- GLC#
- GLC09654.38-View header record
- Type
- Broadsides, posters & signs
- Date
- 1941-1945
- Author/Creator
- Autocar
- Title
- Big Trucks for Big Jobs
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 poster Height: 58.4 cm, Width: 43.4 cm
- Primary time period
- Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- Sub-Era
- World War II
One poster entitled, "Big Trucks for Big Jobs" printed by Autocar, dated 1941-1945. Poster features an Autocar fuel truck on a road in a jungle. There is a bullet-riddled Japanese plane's wing in the foreground. There are four bombers in the air above the truck. The poster reads in part, "Refueling is a big job. On our fighting fronts, it must be done in a big way. This means big trucks... heavy-duty trucks... Autocar Trucks!" The title has been written on the back of the poster in pencil.
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