PETROL SAVED

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXI, Issue 8835, 21 October 1942, Page 2

PETROL SAVED

BISCUIT DELIVERY POOL ENOUGH FOR 1000-BOMBER RAID Enough petrol to carry out a 1000bomber raid on Germany has been saved by economies in delivering biscuits to shops throughout Groat Britain. The country’s 240 biscuitmakers have handed all their motor vans, with staffs, over to the Biscuit Delivery Pool, a non-profitmaking enterprise which has delivered 1.000,000 tons of biscuits *inee til# beginning of the vear.

The Pool takes the biscuits from the factories to the wholesalers and the retailers, collecting from the latter all their empty tins which are very carefully stored. Members of the Pool are charged for the service and credited for the hire of their own vans and staff.

ing common. Long runways are essential and cruising speeds around 220 miles per hour are normal to-day. Compared with the heaviest bomber at the beginning of the war, the heavy bomber of to-day carries three times the load, is 25 per cent, faster, and has more than twice the armament. The crew, in relation to the-weight of bombs delivered, is only half what it was.. The casualty rate among modern bombers is lower.