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of us will have much exhibition touring to encompass. We have to start on this round early in the year at Manchester. Many of our readers will remember that we have, on previous occasions, animadverted upon the usual method which is adopted by a visitor in his spasmodic endeavours to see everything in a show before he becomes exhaasted. If the exhibition, moreover, be one in which he has a professional or other specific interest, he is likely to be baulked almost at every turn by encounters with acquaintances, his attention is likely to be distracted at every turn, and it is more than probable that he will be constantly subjected to a stream of invitations to come and look at such and such a thing immediately upon a requcst from someone who is temporarily fired with enthusiasm for it. We have written on previous occasions of the futility or such methods if the lessons of an exhibition are to be adequately garnered.
The Crowd will be a Useful One We are presuming that the majority of those who will visit the City Hall. Manchester, on the occasion of the second North of England Automobile Show, will be people who have a very good reason for such allocation of their time. The heavy and other industrial vehicles are to be housed separately during the forthcoming exhibition, and it is, therefore, to be anticipated that there will not be the crowd of idlycurious visitors which one is accustomed to associate with anything in the nature of a pleasure-car show. Their absence will be appreciated by all those who have real business in view.
Adopt a Fixed Route Round the Show.
There should be ample opportunity for everybody who passes the turnstiles at the City Hall to examine at their ease the many interesting exhibits which will be staged there, and with every prospect of convenience. A crowded exhibition is about the last place in the world to which a visit should be paid with the object of gathering_ a general impression of whatever is on show there. In all cases we strongly recommend the adoption of a fixed itinerary, in order that the maximum benefit may accrue with as little physical disability as possible.
• We Conduct As Imaginary Visitor.
To facilitate the adoption of such a method, we propose, in the few pages which follow, to conduct a mythical visitor round the various stands, and to point out to him many of the principal exhibits en route.
We shall first of all make a careful and comprehensive survey of the vehicle stands, and subsequently we shall pay a round of calls to the stands which accommodate the accessory exhibits. We trust. that this method will enable other visitors to avoid acquiring that confused and incomplete impression with which so many of us. following more haphazard procedure, are likely to leave the precincts of any exhibition of moment.
Two Useful Maps in this Issue.
We reproduce on page 530 a map, which we have had prepared in our own studios, and which shows the relative positions of the stands at the City Hall. We also indicate thereon, the track which would be followed by the visitor whom we presume to have the pleasure of conducting round the Show, and to whom we endeavour to point out as much of interest as possible in the eourse of a single itinerary. Elsewhere, too, our readers will find a scale map showing the relative positions of the Rusholine.and City Hall shows. There are quite a few exhibitors of acoessories, tires, etc., at the pleasure car exhibition,. for whose displays our readers are certain to evince
some interest.