BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR
Final Preparations
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received February 15, 5.5 p.m.)
Rugby, February 13.
Six thousand men were tit work at Olympia yesterday and 2500 at the White City in preparing stalls and making other final preparations for the opening at these great centres of the London section of the British Industries Fair oil Monday. Work continued throughout to-day and the whole of the week-end will be occupied in finally arranging the exhibition on speciallyerected stalls and completing the decorations.
The coronation has furnished the key note of tliis year’s decorative schemes Broad strips of bunting in red, white, and blue bedeck the roofs and walls of the grand hall at Olympia, with the Royal monogram and other appropriate emblems at intervals.
The Queen’s visit to the White City on Monday afternoon will be the first of several Royal tours of the fair in the opening week. On Tuesday morning the King and Queen and Queen Mary will visit Olympia and the Duke of Gloucester will go to Castle Bromwich. Birmingham, to inspect the engineering section of the fair. The King will visit tlie White City on Wednesday morning and Queen Mary in the afternoon. On Thursday the Queen and Queen Mary will make a second tour at Olympia.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 121, 16 February 1937, Page 9
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