BRITISH MOTOR TRADE TRIUMPH.
GREATEST MOTOR SHOW. ORDERS FOR . 100,000 CARS.. £2,000,000 OVERSEA ORDER FOR ONE FIRM. Thousands of visitors poured into London for the. Motor Show at Olympia, West Kensington, where the first day’s attendance was 16,409. Agents from all parts of the world arrived' to, arrange their contracts for the 1926 season. The fact that there is no Paris show this yean means that London has become for the time being the biggest motor car market in the world. Before the show opened one -British firm, the Morris Company, signed contracts with agents to supply no- fewer than 70,000- cars during 1926. Even'df greater importance is the ,'fact that 10,000 of these cars have been sold to agents from abroad. The majority of the orders have. come from Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Portugal, Spain, Japan and the Irish Free State. '. . . .A The value of these 10 5 000 cars is approximately £2,000,000.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 December 1925, Page 7
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156BRITISH MOTOR TRADE TRIUMPH. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 December 1925, Page 7
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