It Keeps Them - And Others - Warm! -- A cheer is raised when Flo Powell and her friend, Eileen ***** come in sight of the Devonshire road coal queue at Chiswick, London. Five minutes later Flo (left) is busy with shovel and scales, weighing out the quarter0hundred allowed each customer. Since before Christmas, Flo and Eileen have been voluntarily serving the queue who collect emergency rations from Flo's husband's coal yard. Flo reckons to have doled out about fifty tons. "You need old clothes for this job," she said, "but the soap ration goes no place. February 28, 1947. (Photo by Mirror Features).