BRITISH PRODUCTS

Evening Star, Issue 19796, 21 February 1928, Page 4

BRITISH PRODUCTS

FAIR AT WHITE CITY THIRTEEN MILES OF STANDS. (British Official News.) Press Association —By Wireless —Copyright RUGBY, February 18. The fourteenth British industrial fair at White City, London, and Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, which continues until March 2, will be by tar the largest trade display ever held in Britain, 2,000 British manufacturers having displayed their best and newest products along thirteen miles of stands. Their customers, including trade buyers from over sixty countries, are arriving in London and Birmingham by every train. London hotels this week-end are thronged with overseas buyers. One hotel has guests of seventeen nationalities, and in another there are fifty buyers, a large proportion of whom are Germans, Other hotels have visitors from Austria, Sweden, Holland, Germany, Siam, and America. Visitors have come from as far afield as Seychelles.

The annual fair is being increasingly used by manufacturers for launching entirely new products on the world’s markets.

Sir Philip Cunliffc-Listcr (president of the Board of Trade) presides at the Government’s banquet to leading exhibitors and buyers at Mansion House tomorrow night, with the Duke of York as the chief guest. In tho afternoon tho Duke and Duchess of York will visit White City; while on Thursday the King and Queen will visit Birmingham, and later probably White City.