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Petrol Ticket - N2 Units
| Issuer | Ministry of Power, United Kingdom |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress coupon on plain paper with a wavy-line guilloche underprint. A central scroll vignette carries the denomination legend in bold type, flanked by the Royal cypher at upper right. Serial number printed in black at top; fields for vehicle registration number at foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | This coupon is issued subject to the conditions that this book is produced at the time the supply of motor fuel is made and that this coupon is detached by the dealer at such time. Motor fuel must only be supplied during the period for which this coupon is valid. The particulars below must be filled in by the dealer at the time of such supply. Name and Address of Dealer: Quantity supplied (if less than the quantity authorised) Gallon(s) |
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Britain introduced petrol rationing twice in the postwar period — once during the 1956 Suez Crisis and again briefly during the 1973–74 oil embargo. On both occasions, coupon books were printed in anticipation of full rationing but the schemes were either abandoned or curtailed before widespread distribution. The 1973 books are particularly well-documented: they were printed, serialized, and held in government warehouses, then destroyed without ever entering public hands — making surviving examples scarce precisely because they were never actually used.
The "N2 units" designation reflects a tiered allocation system designed around vehicle engine size.