Inland Transport: Inland Transport in World War II (HMSO Offficial History of World War II - Civil) by Savage C I

Author:Savage, C I [Savage, C I]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HMSO - 232 Celisu
Published: 2014-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

Footnotes

1 See above, pp. 221 et seq.

2 An investigation into conditions at Liverpool in November 1940 estimated 80 per cent, of Liverpool’s total imports were taken from the sheds by road. Many of the goods were only moved to warehouses in the city, of course.

3 e.g. on 14th November the Lord President’s Committee decided that R.T.C.s should be asked to treat sympathetically applications for additional fuel for conveyance of export goods by road to Liverpool. Special arrangements had been made from March 1940 onwards for supplying fuel to vehicles transferred away from their home area to port areas.

4 See Statistical Appendix, Table 10.

5 A full account of the difficulties of importing oil through the Western ports will be given in Oil by D. Payton-Smith in this series.

6 In July and August 1940, for example, the rate of tanker losses was three times the rate of new building.

7 TOTAL PETROLEUM PRODUCTS (GREAT BRITAIN)

Thousand tons

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