ABSTRACT
The delivery of materials to site in order to ensure that they are not there prematurely requires attention. The purchaser is happy to become the legal owner of the plant, he is not so anxious to assume complete responsibility for any loss or damage to its which may occur at any time up to the plant being taken over. The responsibility for either storing the plant or arranging its storage should be placed firmly with the contractor, unless it has been delivered to site, when this may no longer be practical. Various factors combine to provide the contractor with a substantial incentive to make, or press his vendors to make, early delivery of materials to site. The first is the fear of erection/installation work being held up by material shortages. The combination of repeated late deliveries from vendors and escalating costs of site labour has made this into a very real fear.
