The Buenos Aires Exhibition
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A GREAT event for Britain will be . the British Empire Trade Exhibition to be A GREAT event for Britain will be . the British Empire Trade Exhibition to be opened at Buenos Aires by 11.R.II. The Prince of Wales on Mardi_ 14th. This will be the first time the Empire has organized a fully repre: sentative exposition in a foreign country, and the close relationship between A'rgentina and Britain gives the occasion quite a special value.
'There has always been a strong tie between the two cauntries, and a mutually advantageous trading reciprocity has developed. Argentina's produce is exchanged for the manufactures of Britain, which, it must be added, are preferred by reason of their superior quality.
So far as our own industry is concerned, the position is particularly interesting. The Argentine has a demand for motor vehicles to convey produce and manufactures between upcountry trading centres and the railway. The fertile alluvial plain 'stretching from the Atlantic to the Andes is practically devoid of stone, and during the rains it presents difficulties to every kind of transport vehicle. The rigid-frame six-wheelers, f o r which British makers are famous, have proved themselves of great. value in such conditions, and there is a definite market for these and other' types. The demand will ex-. tend, for the country is developing rapidly. From the point of. view of our manufacturers, the exploiting of export markets is a.pressing need at thistime. Although convinced that road transport in this country will never submit to be legislated out of existence, for the simple reason that it supplies a want which no other means can fulfil, manufacturers must face the fact that, with the growth of huge operating combines, with definite indications of oppressive legislation to stiMulate unfairly the railways in their fight to regain traffic lost by inefficiency, with the immoderate development of bureaucratic control and the scope that it allows to professional politicians to play their own game with industry at the expense of the public, with all these threats before them there is every encouragement to develop hopeful export fields, where our commercial chassis are really appreciated as being the finest that the \Odd has yet produced.
For these combined• reasons it will be appreciated why this journal has, during the past months, published a, series , of article's on the Argentine, and it is a source of gratification to find that British chassis Makers are rising to the occasion afforded by the Buenos Aires Exhibition and are sending out about 70 line representatives of their products, including numerous chassis para el cam p0.