Petrol Direct from Pool Depots : Retailers' Protest
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OPPOSITION was expressed at the annual meeting of the Bradford and District Petrol Retailers', Association, last week, to a reported suggestion that commercial vehicles .operatingunder the Ministry of War Transport's scheme for the pooling of shopkeepers' retail deliveries should obtain petrol direct from depots of the petrol companies' Pool.
Mr. J. H. Baxter, "who was re-elected chairman of the Association, said he was informed that a suggestion on those lines had been put, forward at a Bradford traders' meeting held to discuss the pooling of retail deliveries. The argument 'aclvance.(1, he gathered. was that 'direct supply from • Pool depots would make for a better check on the use of 'petrol. .
The suggestion might simply have been,put forward as a "feeler,'.' but it
raised an issue which was serious from the petrol retailers' point of view, and any such .idea should be nipped in the bud. • The petrol retailer was already suffering an injustice, in that certain large trading concerns, distributing their goods in Various parts of the country, were able to send their vehicles to Pool depots for petrol supplies. Those vehicles formerly called at retailers' stations for supplies-, and-it was all wrong that the Pool companies should be acting both as whole' salers and retailers. •
The' meeting decided to ask the Yorkshire . Division of the Motor Agents' Association to take_ up this question, and to support efforts, to Obtain increases in the evaporation allowance In connection with petrol rationing, and in the retail profit margin.