TRANSPORTATION COURT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1939, Page 11

TRANSPORTATION COURT

HIGHLIGHT OF CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. GREAT APPEAL TO MOTORISTS. Among the many industrial attractions at the Centennial Exhibition, there is none that is more filled with interest both for the general public and the more mechanically minded, than the Transportation Court. Here the motor traders of New Zealand have excelled themselves in designing a series of displays which would bear comparison with the famous motor shows of Britain and the Continent. This show is by no means limited to a display of motor cars. There are many working exhibits depicting practically every phase of motor car manufacture. It appears that there has been a real effort to enlighten the public on what makes things go in the 1939 motor vehicles. One of the highlights of the court is the large exhibit by The Dominion Motors Limited. The first novelty is that the display is made in a sunken court. Here, in a colour scheme of cream and scarlet, you see a display that runs the whole gamut of modern transportation. Prominently featured are a select series of British motor cars, young and virile in styling and expressing all that is best in the tradition of British engineering. Gleaming like jewels under the same brilliant lights are the masterpieces of American industry, big and streamlined to express the high point of luxury in motor car design. Lower down are the commercial vehicles and finally a large display of

tractors wnicn are visual pruui 01 uie modernity, convenience and work capacity that modern engineering has brought to farm tractor design. The simple background is relieved by murals depicting the large English and American factories which arc represented by Dominion Motors in New Zealand. The central piece is a raised mural in full colour which proves of great interest to all the visitors. It takes the form of a fun map and depicts the sales and service network of Dominion Motors in New Zealand. Undoubtedly the Motor Show is one which all who visit the Exhibition should see. Only in viewing a line-up such as this will you be able to gain a true conception of the advances in styling and engineering that mark another great year of automotive progress.