FEWER DISTRIBUTING CENTRES FOR PETROLEUM GREAT deal of traaspart: is
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involved in' the marketing of petroleum products. The sum eeceived by British Railways for the carriage of oil is 2 per cent., of its aggregate freight earnings. Some 5,800 vehicles are ran by the oil marketing companies in this country and the cost of their operation, together with hired vehicles, is twice the payanent made to the railways.
Mr. C. T. Brunner, director and general manager of Shell-Mex •. and B.P., Ltd., gave these facts in the Henry .
Spurrier memorial lecture to the Institute of Transport, in London, this week.
The tendency of marketing to-day, he said, was the concentration of activity by is reduction in the number of distri
bution centres. .Concurrently with the extension of the delivery radius of the remaining centres, efforts were beiaa, made to deliver the largest possible loads to customers' premises.
Oil was the most . important single commodity in world trade. • British . refinery capacity,which was'3.5in tons in 1939,had risen to 20m. -tons in.1951 and should reach 26m, tons in 1953.
.._CHEAPER PETROL?
THE effect on the price of petrol of varidusoil companies' exclusiveselling arrangements with numbers of garages, will be considered when the current periodical.. review of distaibna lion costsla. completed. -Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, Minister of Fuel and Power, Inade this statement-last _week.