ENOUGH PETROL
4 FOR THOUSAND BOMBER RAID. SAVED ON BISCUIT DELIVERIES IN BRITAIN. Enough petrol to carry out a thousand bomber raid on Germany has been saved by economies in delivering biscuits to shops throughout Great Britain. The country’s 240 biscuit makers have handed all their motor-vans, with staffs, over to the Biscuit Delivery Pool, a non-profit-making enterprise which has delivered one million tins of biscuits since the beginning of the year. The pool takes the biscuits from the factories to the wholesalers and the retailers, collecting from the latter all their empty tins which are very carefully stored. - Members of the pool are charged for the service and credited for the hire of their own vans and staff.
By avoiding overlapping journeys and by making full use of the space available several million ton-miles of haulage have been saved in a month or two —an. enormous economy not only in petrol and tires, but in engine wear and manpower.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1942, Page 3
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160ENOUGH PETROL Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1942, Page 3
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