Cut-price fuel thanks to fault at pump.Byline: MARK BULSTRODE A TESCO TESCO Tribal Electric Supply Company (Pakistan) TESCO T.E. Stockwell and Albert Cohen (founders of UK shopping chain) TESCO Tokyo Executive Search Company, Ltd. petrol station was swamped with motorists after a faulty pump mistakenly dispensed fuel for 40p a litre LITRE. A French measure of capacity. It is of the size of a decimetre, or one-tenth part of a cubic metre. It is equal to 61.028 cubic inches. Vide Measure. for nearly a week. Queues of traffic built up around the forecourt in Milton, Cambridgeshire Milton is a village just north of Cambridge separated from the city by the A14. It has a population of approximately 4,300 with 3,200 being on the electoral register. It expanded considerably in the late 1980s when two large housing estates were built between the bypass and the , as word spread of the bargain. Customers with a 50-litre tank were filling up for pounds 20 instead of the usual 107p-a-litre price of pounds 54. Staff only realised there was a fault after hearing a customer who had taken advantage of the low price talking about it on local radio. An engineer fixed the problem yesterday - six days after it was first noticed by customers. "This was a technical fault at the pump and an engineer has now rectified the problem," said a Tesco spokesman. "Although we always aim to keep prices down at the pumps, unfortunately, we could not maintain this price indefinitely." |
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