Will Next Year's Show at Manchester be "Sanctified?"
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The moving spirits of recent motor shows at Manchester have never faltered in their use of the word " unsanctitied," with reference to those promotions and the attitude of the S.M.M.T. Everybody is now agreed that there will be a show, and a good one too, in Cotionopolis. .next year: the great uncertainty is the approval of the Trade Society in London. The Council of this bouy has vested in it, according to broad conception, the trusteeship of the motor industry throughout the whole country, and not for London alone : the latter view is narrow and unfair to its intentions, though we do not disguise our opinion that the execution of those high aims miscarried so far as Manchester was concerned. There were, very conceivably, faults of diplomacy—or, maybe, a complete lack of that quality—on both sides : Manchester men are not troubled with an excess of indirectness, and the Society is not exactly disappointing to admirers of immodesty. There has been " a chiel takin notes " at Monchester. since last month's show closed, as well as the etheial who was crawling under ears and peering into accessory stands during the exhibition. We do not know whether linings " or " whitewashings " are to be the serpiels for offenders, but we du hope that a modes rixerull will be found, and that no temporary feelings of irritation will be allowed to prejudice progress and unity in the future. Nobody has offended very greatly, and if any have offended to the equivalent of £250, it is because they were obliged so to do. Why perpetuate the eondi-tion which deprives members of the local section of much trade, and which has proved to need an exception in the case of Manchester ? The only show to survive the ban, and to do so highly successfully in spite of official disfavour, merits recognition.