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MR G. D. CAMPBELL, Pr, sident of the Scottish Moti Trade Association, told tf members on Monday evenin that the Scottish Motor Sho had outgrown the Kelvin Ha facilities. In addition to tli Kelvin Hall area the of fici4 part of the show spilled over t the nearby Partick Bus Depo Also there were a number ( private satellite shows at loc tions around Glasgow an many who did not exhibit E. Kelvin Hall were utilising ho; pitality suites in Glasgo, hotels. Among those wh exhibited outside were tyr manufacturers who had dt serted Kelvin Hall for the fin time in many years.
Mr Campbell said tha although there was open spac adjacent to the exhibition hal it now seems unlikely tha Greater Glasgow -Cou-nci would develop it; and h suggested that the facilities a Ingilston, near Edinburgh might provide the solution.
His proposal will be put ti the test next May when th East of Scotland Motor Shov is held on the Edinburgh sit, and later in October when th. Institute of Traffic Administ ration mounts a commercial vehicle exhibition there tc coincide with its annual con ference.
Mr Campbell attacke( vehicle manufacturers who 11( said offered one side( franchise agreements wit' dealers who were too easil3 discarded when it suited th( manufacturer. He demandec that dealers be given a bettei agreement and soon. He alsc strongly criticised fuel corn. panies over the recent fue crisis. He said that rather thar the 15 per cent cutback which they had claimed, the ex perience was that the figure was nearer 30 per cent. He asked them to explain why there had been no similar shortage in Europe, and at the same time called on them to reduce their profit margins with the warning that if they did not more than 10,000 filling stations would go out of business in Scotland in the next few years.