BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR

Evening Star, Issue 20076, 17 January 1929, Page 7

BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR

DEMAND FOR SPACE JTIUSI’ECTS FXTHFMELY SATISFACTORY. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. HUG BY, January Jo. | The prospects for the British lik.lu.i- ---| tries Fair, which will lie held from I‘ebrnary 18 to March J, are extremely satisfactory. At the White City, BonI don, almost every branch of British industry will ho represented. The machinery section is to bo shown concurrently at Birmingham. The, fair at the While City will he the largest of its kind ever held in this country. The original estimate of the accommodation required "'as 860.000 square feet. While at last year’s fair 850,000 square feet was let to exhibitors, the total space booked this year is over 500,000 square feci. The demand for space at Birmingham lias been so groat that the whole of the space available in the exhibition buildings—loo,7Bo square loci—was soon let, and the authorities are rapidly adding a section for such items as roadmaking apparatus, tractors, and agricultural buildings. The number ol oversea,s (inns which have informed the Overseas Trade Department that (hoy will lie represented at the lair is over six times as many ns at the corresponding date last year, when only 11.0 firms had accepted the invitation, though the actual number who attended was 1,958. At present close on 700 acceptances have been received, so that the overseas firms attending the fair should'be considerably in excess ol last year’s number.