Some of that fall reflected the demobilisation of the wartime economy in the immediate aftermath of the war, together with post-war austerity.

They will also face the collapse of the country's wartime economy.

The latter was cut as a wartime economy measure in 1940 and not resumed.

It was closed as a wartime economy measure between 1917 and 1919.

Some items were hard to locate, while others were in short supply in the wartime economy.