 The Scottish Council on Industry was created in 1942 on the initiative of the then Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr Tom Johnston.The greater part of expanded wartime production requirements had been supplied by the creation of a new capacity in the South and the Midlands of England, while productive space in Scotland was increasingly devoted to storage uses.Mr Johnston set up the Council on Industry to give advice in relation to this and the other economic and industrial problems created by wartime conditions.