The Archive · 1936

RECORD B. 1. F. SHOWS OPENED

London, Feb. 15.

Sections of the British Industries Fair at the White City and Olympia, London, and Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, will open on Monday, The King' is paying a visit to the London sections one day next week. The Fair remains open til "Ped: of goods which wilt be displayed is estimated at nearly £2,000,000, of which the Birmingham Hiewellers exhibit represents. £60,000.

AL Castle Bromwich, extensions have made the exhibition hall the largest Fair building in the. world. Eleven miles of exhibits will served by small electric cars, which will pick up and set down \{sitors At desired points, Several stands are organized "by "local development boards, and on one of these Isa 21- foot long model of the Cunard White Star liner Queen Mary.

The liner Queen Mary also Agures in the White City section, where twenty firms concerned in the manufacture of thirteen miles of fabrics required for the decoration of the ship's interior, are showing some the 130 different silks, satins, velvets, brocades, linens—specially dyed 10 withstand seawater—tapestries, and other materia The Dominions and Colonies have organized notable displays in the London sections. Australia Is showing. wool lace, the design of which is based on the tracery of the Henry 'VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey.

'A. dress parade will be held twice daily" at the White City, in which fashions by London designers will be shown. It ig. estimated that during past week, about 25,000 have been directly employed in work connected With the opening of the Fair. Wireless through Reuter.

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