80 Per Cent. of Fruit Transport Off the Road "
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CONTROL of the fruit trade has hit its interests so badly in Scotland, according to an official of the Edinburgh Retail Fruit Trade Association, that fully 80 per cent. of the transport normally involved in the distribution of fruit in the area has been forced off the road. With nothing to sell, road transport has been thrown back on the hands of the various sections of the trade as a debit rather than an asset.
The fact that transport vehicles can be profitably sold is small consolation to the traders who are, at the same time, selling their own livelihood and all prospects of replacing the vehicles at the same price during the war.
Despite this natural desire to hold on to their vehicles it is likely that fruit traders will, in the near future, sell in numbers, not only in this area but in every other district, for the trade has been hit similarly in many parts of Great Britain.