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NEW COST TABLES
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THE 51st edition of COMMERCIAL MOTOR Tables of Operating Costs was published on Wednesday this week. It is available through any bookseller price 6s or from George Newnes Ltd., Tower House, Southampton Street, London WC2, price 7s postage paid.
On pages 120-121 of this issue, S. Buckley discusses the new tables and presents seine examples.
have set out to plan extended intake periods. On the other hand, some warehouses shut for lunch with consequent traffic bunching.
It appears that the changing pattern of distribution may be accentuating the problem as an increasing percentage of consumers' expenditure is accounted for by multiples, co-operatives, voluntary chains and other retail organizations which tend to be located in the prime and congested shopping areas.
The EDC reports that the detailed organization of the autumn experiment in Greater London area will be under the direction of Mr. Beckham, of SPD Ltd., in consultation with trade associations representing manufacturers and retailers and the trade unions "without whose help and co-operation no scheme could succeed".
The EDC stresses that the extensive exercise in the autumn, although limited in its early stages to grocers in the London area, "may well become the pattern for future delivery in many other trades all over the country". But before this can happen a major problem must be solved. The economies achieved through out-of-hours deliveries accrue primarily to the supplier and indirectly to the general public. The retailer, however, is faced with additional expenditure and for the scheme to succeed a satisfactory way must be found of passing on these economies to the retailer.