USE OF HEADLIGHTS URGED BUT NOT COMPELLED
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ASHED by Mr. L:2son to make compulsory the use 0; night of a masked headlamp, except when during an alert an order was given by a competent authority for the headlamp to be extinguished, Col. Llewellin said in the House of Commons last week that. from the point of view of road safety, it was most desirable that drivers should use their headlamps during black-out hours, except when the police gave instructions to the contrary, but at present be did not propose to make their use compulsory, as there might well be occasions, during the actual progress of an air raid, when both drivers and public would be strongly opposed to headlights being on.
100 AUTHORITIES ORDER SNOWPLOUGHS
I T was not necessary for every highway authority to possess snowploughs or similar snow-clearing equipment,
said Llewellin in Parliament last week, and, in any event, the competing clairna for war equipment would make universal provision impossible. The Ministry of War Transport, however, was satisfied that such equipment was available in areas where it was most likely to be needed, and 100 highway authorities, who were not fully provided, had taken advantage of an offer recently made by the Ministry of a grant towards the ccst, and had ordered equipment. The matter was raised by Captain Strickland,
NEW SCOTTISH BUS STATION IN USE THE new bus station at Stirling, built for W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., was opened on October 6, but there was no formal ceremony. Office staff and inspectors took up their posts and traffic was soon operating from the new centre.
NEW DUNLOP WAREHOUSE
ANEW Dunlop warehouse, at 17, Standen Street, Tunbridge Wells, has been opened to cover the area around this town, It is in charge of Mr. C. Noyelle.
MOBILIZING SCOTLAND'S FARMING RESOURCES
QO as to mobilize and make the fullest /Ouse of th3 country's mechanical resources in farming, agriculturL1 contractors in Scotland have to register by November 1 with the Agricultural Executive Committee of every area in which they do business. The Order, which has been made by the Secretary of State for Scotland under the Defence Regulations, applies to persons whose business is, or includes, that of carrying out agricultural operations on land other than that in their own occupation, and embraces tractor work, g, rotilling and threshing.
CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT TO MAKE MOTORS?
THE suggestion that the co-operative movement should enter certain heavy industries, such as motor production, vas made by 'fr. Neil S. Beaton, president of the Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society, when he recently addressed East of Scotland co-operative managers at Leith.