Buying Fuel at Lower Prices. No Action by Petroleum Board A SUGGESTION put forward to the
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Petroleum Board, with the object of preventing commercial users in other areas from buying petrol at the lower price permitted in areas where the number of petrol pumps is restricted, has been rejected. In the restricted areas the lower price to commercial users has been introduced for the benefit of road-transport operators who can no longer buy petrol in bulk because their private pumps have been put out of service.
Following complaints that commercial-vehicle operators outside the restricted areas were entering them in order to obtain petrol at the cheaper rate, Mr. Rupert Lindley, secretary of the Bradford Section of the Motor Agents' Association, and of the Bradford and District Petrol Retailers' Association, suggested to the Petroleum Board that certificates be issued to those users entitled to buy at the cheaper rate, and that supply at this price be conditional upon production of the certificate.
At last week's meeting of the Bradford Section of the M.A.A., Mr. Lindley read a letter from Mr. W. H. Critchlow, manager of the North-eastern Region of the Petroleum Board, who stated that after having given considerable thought to the suggestion, " we find that it would not be possible satisfactorily to cover the position in this manner, nor would it be practicable to adopt this scheme under existing conditions."