OLYMPIA SHOW

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19153, 9 November 1927, Page 6

OLYMPIA SHOW

Success Assured. A WONDERFUL DISPLAY. * The Olympia Motor Exhibition has now been open for three days, and so far the public patronage extended it is sufficient to show that its popularity, far from diminishing, is increasing. It would be strange if it were otherwise, for the Show enables one see all that is latest and best in the world's most mobile form of transport. Indeed, the products of«the best brains in Britain, Europe, and America in this connexion have been got together in a display that is most impressive. The motorist who has owned a car for several years, or maybe more than one, is perhaps more interested in the exhibits than anybody else, and is certainly able to appreciate them to a greater extent than the man or woman who is contemplating the possession of a car for the first time, but the charm of Olympia is that, whether or not motorcars appeal to one, it is impossible not to be impressed with the display, with its background of colour, and brilliant lighting effects. Four, six, and eight-cyclinder cars, their bodies tastefully painted, and their interiors luxuriously and comfortably upholstered, are a striking example of the progress that has been made in motordom within the last few years, and for those whose means must restrict their purchasing power there are other cars less pretentious, but equally serviceable. At- one time people were afraid to buy a car for fear of experiencing a breakdown and not being able to adjust it, but nowadays cars are made so mechanically reliable that such a possibility is a remote one, and is getting more so every year. Thus it has become a common occurrence to see people well up in years driving cars miles away from centres of population with never the slightest fear of being held up.

As Mr Geo. Tench, president of the Canterbury Branch of the Motor Traders' Association, stated at the opening ceremony on Saturday night, there is no stagnation in the industry, a fact the truth of which is made apparent when it is remembered that within a few years the membership of the Association has grown from 50 tc 1000, -to say nothing of the thousands of mechanics and salesmen it employs.