| AdminHistory | The Fuel Advisory Committee was established in September 1939, by order of the General Purposes Committee. It consisted of nine members representing the following bodies; two from ‘Gas Suppliers’, two from ‘Electric Suppliers’, three from ‘Association of Coal Suppliers’ and one each from the Birmingham Co-operative Society and the Ten Acres & Stirchley Co-operative Society [TASCOS]. The committee’s function was to advise the Local Fuel Overseer, under the Fuel and Lighting Order of 1939, which came into effect with the outbreak of the Second World War. The committee fixed prices for various grades of coal supplied to domestic users and no supplier could charge more. After the war, the committee only met infrequently, the last time in October 1954, as many of the restrictions were no longer in need of being enforced. |