This advertisement will appear in the Fruit and Vegetable Trade Papers commencing December 19th, 1942 MINISTRY OF FOOD EXTRA D IMPORTANT NOTICE TO POTATO RETAILERS LOOK OUT FOR POTATOES THE GREEN STAMPS On Wednesday last, December 16th, the Ministry of Food opened in London a new part of the big drive to increase the consumption of potatoes and relieve our calls upon wheat shipping: POTATO PETE'S CHRISTMAS FAIR on the bombed site of Messrs. John Lewis & Co., Ltd., in Oxford Street. Admission to this big attraction is free, but to share in certain inside features the visitor has to buy a twopenny POTATO STAMP (see replica above) entitling her to two extra pennyworth's of potatoes at her local retailers.
- Collection ID
- HATOM
- Document Reference
- HATOM/9/21
- Document Types
- Ephemera
- File Reference
- HATOM/9
- Identifier
- 10.1080/wtss.hatom.000009.021
- Keywords
- Civil Consumption Coupons Potatoes Retail Vegetables
- Language
- English
- Locations Discussed
- London
- Pages
- 1
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Rationing Supply Retail Consumer Goods Agriculture Food Supply
