BRITISH INDUSTRIAL FAIR

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 122, 21 February 1928, Page 9

BRITISH INDUSTRIAL FAIR

LARGEST EVER HELD LONDON THRONGED WITH OVERSEAS BUYERS Rugby, February 19. The fourteenth British Industrial Fair at White City, London, and Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, which continues until March 2, will be by far the largest trade display ever held in Britain. Two thousand British manufacturers have displayed their best and newest products along thirteen miles of stands, and their customers, including trade buyers from over sixty countries, are arriving in London and Birmingham by every train. London hotels this week-end are thronged with oversea buyers. One hotel has guests of seventeen nationalities. In another there were fifty buyers, a large proportion of whom were Germans. Other hotels had visitors from Australia, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Siam, and America. Visitors have come from as far afield as Seychelles. This annual fair is being increasingly used by manufacturers for launching entirely new products on the world’s markets. Sir Phillip Cunliffe-Lister, president of the Board of Trade, will preside at the Government’s banquet to leading exhibitors and buyers at the Mansion House to-morrow night, with the Duke of York as chief guest. In the afternoon the Duke and Duchess of York .will visit White City,' while on Thursday the King and Queen will visit Birmingham, and later probably White City.—British Official Wireless.