AIR EXHIBITION
PUBLIC APATHY SMALL ATTENDANCES AT OLYMI’IA DISAPPOINTED EXHIBITORS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) United Service (Received 20th July, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 19th July. Failure threatens the Air Exhibition owing to amazing public indifference. The daily attendance lias not averaged 5000. An American authority told the '‘Herald” correspondent that a similar show would arouse the wildest enthusiasm in tiie United States. Foreigners express the opinion that tiie exhibition is far ahead of European displays.
Press representatives wandered through almost deserted aisles of Olympia filled with disappointed and broken-hearted exhibitors. The. organiser told the “Daily News” that Lord Thomson, Air Minister, sharply criticised the shameful neglect of the unique collection valued at hundreds of thousands sterling, and said that foreigners, who were most interested in aviation, must get a strange impression of our inadaptability' to the new developments in transportation.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 20 July 1929, Page 7
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140AIR EXHIBITION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 20 July 1929, Page 7
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