ELECTRIC MOTOR FLEET
HUGE SAVING OF PETROL. Six million gallons of petrol will be saved in Britain next year by the fleet of electric vehicles which will then be operating. The 5,000 on British roads when war broke out has now increased to 6,000 and the Electric Vehicle Association of Great Britain estimate that there will be 8,600 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 6,020,000 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 stores which have run electric vehicles for years are increasing their fleets and in the early hours giant electric vans now creep silently among London's dust cans.
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Trinidad are now all showing an interest in electric vehicles, especially for short haulage deliveries.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 August 1940, Page 2
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