TRADE FAIR IN MOSCOW

Press, Volume C, Issue 29502, 2 May 1961, Page 19

TRADE FAIR IN MOSCOW

Preparations By Britain (NZ.PA.-Reuter) MOSCOW. Britain's biggest shop window in the Soviet Union, the trade fair, due to open on May 19, is certain to be a success, according to Russians in Moscow From May 19 until June 4, a million Russians are expected to pass through the turnstiles into the fair. They will be able to wander round the four large buildings on the exhibition site looking at a wide variety of British goods, ranging from machine tools to milkbottling plants, and from aircraft to cars. With 821 British firms taking part, it will be the first large British trade fair to be held in the Soviet Union and the largest exhibition ever put on here by a single country. Everything on show will be for sale. The declared aim of the fair is to further AngloSoviet trade. While financially independent of the British Government the fair has the full support of the .Board of Trade. Each stand will hay* its quota of Russian interpreters. and if the British request is fulfilled, 300 additional interpreters will be supplied by the Russians. Britain is hoping to put op show here the revolutionary hovercraft. A few weeks ago. the Soviet Union announced that it was working on a 400ton craft and British officials have been trying to discover whether the Soviet machine actually exists and whether it will be in Moscow soon. Soviet officials welcome the fact that a team of lecturers will be in Moscow at the same time to deliver talks on the latest technological developments, and that a team of British fashion models will be showing dresses for work and formal wear. Whenever an anxious British businessman or official wonders whether the results of the fair are going to be worth the £2m it is costing to put it on, Soviet officials always assure him that its succcesa is guaranteed.