AFTER-CHRISTMAS RUSH
LONDON RAILWAY STATIONS BUSY N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 29. The ban on the basic petrol ration is being partly blamed for the London main railway stations having their biggest after-Christmas rush since the war. Though four railway companies, ran 241 extra trains, the majority were crammed. When the carriages were full many people packed into the guards’ vans, determined to get home after the Christmas holidays. Queues for trains, it is stated, were made larger by thousands of car owners, who had to leave their cars locked up athome because they had no petrol. Britain's motor trade is now speculating whether the Ministry of Fuel will revive the basic petrol ration during next year's main holiday months—from June to September. Motoring correspondents say that the vastly increased number of allowances for supplementary petrol made recently will greatly reduce savings in petrol consumption and dollars. The abolition of the ration, it is commented, has proved how widely used are cars and motor cycles for taking work-people to and from factories.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26659, 3 January 1948, Page 5
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