Retailers' Transport Pool Suggested P OOLING of transport by retail food
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traders is suggested in a memorandum which has been placed before representatives of the principal federations and the co-operative movement. It is suggested that groups of retailers in each local food council area should enter into mutual-assistance pacts and should agree that, in the event of the premises of any of their number being destroyed, the remainder should undertake to supply the customers of the trader concerned until such time as he is in a position to resume business, when his customers would be re-transferred. States the memorandum issued by Food (Defence Plans) Department to the various food-trade federations:— In view of the inevitable restrictions on all forms of transport and in particular, the restrictions in petrol supply, it is impOrtant that members of a group should formulate a plan for pooling their transport facilities, with a view to eliminating unnecessary duplication and securing that the road vehicles (or common carriers' arrangements) serving the needs of the group would be utilized in the most economical manner possible.
" The preparation of an adequate plant for the pooling of transport will require a careful study of the existing collection and delivery .systems of all members of the group, and the pooling of information which, in normal circumstances, might be. regarded as of a private nature. A plan based upon incomplete information would be of little use in the actual circumstances of an emergency."
All vehicles in the ownership of the members of a particular group would be brought ,together in such a way as to enable them to operate as advantageously as possible for the common use of the group. All such vehicles should already have been grouped under the Ministry of Transport's scheme for 'the organization of road transport, within the sub-districts in which the •machines are, normally garaged. e . •