These companies would acquire licensed premises and manage them as trusts in the interests of the community, rather than private profit.
In this Grey was influenced by temperance proposals published in 1894 by Francis Jayne, Bishop of Chester, who had studied the Swedish Gothenburg system.
Overall promotion of the scheme was carried out by an umbrella organisation chaired by Grey, the Central Public House Trust Association, which remained in being up until at least 1937.
[1] His initiative coincided with the start of motor tourism, and as well as reducing alcohol consumption, the system promised to give new life to the many country inns and hotels that had languished since the end of the coaching era.
[23] During World War II nearly all Trust Houses' holdings were requisitioned for military use, and a certain number of these were never returned.