The Archive · 1922

The Motor Show Ends

London, Nov. 17, 1921.

The Motor Show ended on Saturday, after being open seven days, and contrary to expectation it was a very great financial success. At jone time it threatened to be a com-\plete frost; firms would barely advertise and available space for {exhibits was going begging almost up to tha Jast moment. Visitors thronged into London, however, in thousands, and if business at the exhibition had been restricted, which it was not, it might well have been attributable to the inability of the sightseers ever to get near what they wanted to inspect. Everybody seems to have done well; some firms sold their entire output for the year, up to 6,000 light cars; while medium ears, with an output of about 3,000 and each costing some £600 were equally in demand. Even the accessory section recorded good j trade, and some firms actually solly i "ash made a lot of money.

ion of the Exhibition into two parts, one at Olympia and tha other at the White City, Shepherd's Bush, was, however, very objectionable once again but there is no building big enough in London to hold all who want to get in, and there is already talk of erecting one for exhibitions generally in some selected spot in London if a vacant site can be found.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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