The Archive · 1921

Motor Exhibition for Shanghai

Scheme Sanctioned by Dealers for Show in November About 40° of the ives of the leading motor car dealers, oil firms and_ accessories salesmen in Shanghai met the Palace Hotel, last Friday evening, to consider a proposal to hold w motor ex! m here in November. Their minds were' so fully made up on the desirability of such a show that very little time was spent in discussion before an agreement was come to for the holding of such an event in November and a committee was formed yo work out the preliminary details, conjunction with Mr. Arthur West, the premover of the idea, who will act as manager.

Mr. West presided at the mecting. He said that the idea of a show occurred 10 him some while ago and, from inquiries he then made, he found a generally favourable attitude towards it. He was not. able then to take the matter up seriously, but lately he had again gone into it and had worked out tentative plans. The first consideration was space. He started with the Bund plot and had that all mapped out, but, when he began to mark out reservations, he realized that it was not anything like big enough.

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