CORONATION FLAGS

Evening Post, Issue 66, 15 September 1936, Page 17

CORONATION FLAGS

For the Coronation next year London buildings will be more bedecked with flags than ever before in history, according to flag manufacturers, many of whoso firms have been in business for over a hundred years. This is quite apart from the schemes for street decoration. Already there is a great inrush of private orders for flags varying in size from six square inches to twelve square yards. There is a great demand for flags-bearing a portrait head of King Edward, and for banners bearing such loyal inscriptions as "Long Live the King." One firm has had an inquiry from a large store for a banner a quarter of a mile in length. Many of the manufacturers are so booked up that they are now forced to consider part-orders. They estimate that the demand for flags is very much greater than before the Jubilee celebrations, and is in excess ot that before the Coronation of King George.

"Britain is not 'flag-minded' to the extent of America, Germany, and particularly Sweden and Denmark, where there is a small flag upon every bicycle and a banner in the middle of every hotel table," the manager of a London manufacturing firm said to a representative of the "Daily Telegraph." "But she will always rise to the really big occasion." The orders for Coronation bunting from overseas are stated to bo much heavier, than; anticipated.