INDUSTRIES FAIR

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 85, 9 April 1936, Page 14

INDUSTRIES FAIR

BRITAIN'S BE*ST YEAR

The huge amount of business done at ■ the British Industries Fair, which closed recently after ten days, was revealed in reports issued by industrial and trade organisations, says the "Daily Telegraph.''

The total attendance at the Fair was 308,406, of whom 164,623 visited Olympia and the White City, and 143,783 visited (Jastle Bromwieh. In London, 13,925' buyers from overseas and 117,277 home buyers visited the Fair, as,compared with 11,713 and 135,320 last year, when the holding of the Fair at different dates in London and Birmingham had the effect of increasing the number of home buyers visiting London at the earlier date. A comparison of this year's London attendance with that of 1934 when the Fair was held simultaneously in both centres shows an increase of 1917 overseas buyers, 2938 home buyers, and 2346 of the general public. CONTRACTS TO COME. The following are extracts from reports on the results of the Fair: — Federation of British Industries:— There seems to be every justification for saying that the Fair has been a success, and from reports received from a number of exhibitors there has been a gratifying increase in orders booked and inquiries received.

Mr. J. Percy Plant, chairman of the Board of Management of the Engineering and Hardware Section: at Birmingham: —The Fair of 1036 has been one of the most successful for the Engineering and Hardware Section since the section was begun, in 1920. Large orders have been placed in almost every group, and during the next few months much business which was initiated at the Fair will be translated into contracts. In numerous instances within my own knowledge individual firms have done business amounting to £10,000 and upwards. Mr. W. Thow Munro, chairman of the Textiles Exhibition Committee:— I am satisfied, from actual figures shown to me, that the results of the 1936 Fair far exceed those secured in 1935.

Mr. H. E. Taylor, joint secretary of the Furniture Section Committee: —The business in the Furniture Section has been definitely better, and orders, though in some cases individually smaller, are more numerous than last year. _^____