ELECTRIC MOTOR VANS
SAVING PETROL IN BRITAIN! SHOUT HAULAGE DELIVERIES Six million gallons of petrol will be saved in Britain next year by the I fleet of electric vehicles which will then be operating. The 5000 on British roads when war broke out has now increased to (i()()0 and the Electric Vehicle Association of Great Britain estimate that there will be 8(>00 of them by the end of the year, each vehicle releasing approximately 700 gallons of petrol in twelve months., or a total annual saving of (i.0'20,000 gallons. One London firm now has 300 electric milk delivery vans, another in Bristol has 300 vans for milk, groceries, coal and. other goods. Big London stores which have run electric vehicles for years are increasing their fleets and in the early hours giant electric vans now creek silently among London's dust cans. Australia, New Zealand,, South Africa and Trinidad arc now all showing an interest in electric vehicles, especially for short haulage deliveries.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 206, 30 August 1940, Page 7
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162ELECTRIC MOTOR VANS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 206, 30 August 1940, Page 7
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