FLAGS FOR CORONATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19127, 23 September 1936, Page 15

FLAGS FOR CORONATION

LONDON'S HUGE ORDER

QUARTER-MILE BANNER

LONDON, Aug. 12

For the Coronation next year London buildings will be riiciro bedecked with flags than ever before in history, according to Hag manufacturers, many of whose firms.have- been in business over 100 years. Tin's is quite apart, from the schemes for street decoration.

-Already there is a. great inrush of private orders for Hags varying in size from six square inches to 12 square yards. Then: is a great demand for flags bearing a portrait, bead of King Edward, and for banners bearing such loyal inscriptions as "Long Live the King." One firm has bad 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 of 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 yesterday. "But she will always rise to the really big occasion." The orders for Coronation bunting from overseas are stated to be much heavier than anticipated.