BUYERS ON THE WAY

Evening Post, Issue 36, 12 February 1935, Page 9

BUYERS ON THE WAY

|, BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR [increase over .cast year : " • (British Official Wlrolcss.) J RUGBY, February 10. The British Industries Fair opens in London on Monday week, and buyers are now on the way to it from-all parts of the world. They are coming from over 70 countries, and the Department of Overseas .Trade says there .will be a definite increase over the number who attended last year both at the London section of the fair and at the engineering and hardware1 section which opens at Birmingham on May 20. The Irish Free State will have most | buyers from within the British' Commonwealth, with Canada, India, South 'Africa, Australia, and New Zealand ,next in order. Holland is sending twice as many as any other foreign ! country, followed by France, Germany, I Belgium, .Denmark, .and the United [States. ■■■■••■ Organised parties are sailing to London from Helsingfprs, Oslo, and | Gothenburg next week. One delegation from Paris will include among its 65 members representatives of the Paris Fair, of the Municipality of Paris, the Paris Chamber of Commerce, the Lille Fair, and French textile industries.