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Tractors for Ploughing have already referred to During an Emerthe tractor reserve to be gency instituted by the Government.
The machines will not be available for farmers wishing to qualify for the :E2 an acre subsidy ; these must make their own arrangements. The tractors will, so far as possible, be obtained from home sources. They are to be held by dealers in addition to their ordinary stocks and turned over regularly in the course of trade to avoid risk of depreciation and market disturbance.
Ambitious Grid QCIENTIFIC utilization of Scheme for Supplying oh-I our coal deposits is an
Coal-gas urgent national problem. In
an emergency, road transport might have to operate, to a considerable extent, on gas, alcohol, or electricity. For this reason the • United Kingdom Gas Corporation's £5,000000 gasgrid scheme in West Yorkshire is attracting wide interest. The idea is to link up gas-producing units at gas works over a wide industrial area, supplementing supplies by gas pumped under pressure from coking plants at pitheads. Motor vehicles converted to use gas could then refuel at compressor stations. The scheme already embraces some 20 undertakings serving an area of 690 sq. miles.
ketai I Motor Trad eincrease the efficiency of
Assists Local A.R.P. localA.R.P. transport ser
Services vices, the National Service Committee of the Retail Motor Industry, the chairman of which is Lord Austin, haS written to 1,500 local authorities explaining the various facilities possessed by the motor and garage trade, and suggesting directions in which they might be utilized in connection with A.R.P. and A.F.S. schemes. Full information as to the facilities has been provided, and a staff of 30 experts is engaged in visiting localities from which requests for aid have been received. Thus the valuable work of this Committee has been considerably extended.