SHOWMEN AND MOTOR TRANSPORT.
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TN THEIR adaptability to modern con'. ditions, the showmen's resourceful. ness in relation to mechanically-propelled vehicles found its ample exemplifioation at the recent Nottingham Goose Fair, which, held in the largest open market i
space n England, maintains a continuity of historic interest, compared with which other institutions, represented by that which remains of the Birmingham Onion Fair and the old Leicester Cheese Fair, sink into insignificance. There have been many attempts to kill the Nottingham carnival, which, with its orgies of inharmonious sound, constitutes an annual terror to dwellers within the market square, but, with its present inordinate municipal burdens, the Corporation still finds the fixture quite a remunerative ass Ato continue, and,, from the point
FA. of view of transport appliances, there has been nothing to equal this year's display.
Hundreds of tons of 8howmen's paraphernalia had been transported by road to the metropolis of the lace industry, and, after three days of record business, most of the plant was, with equal facility, transported, in most cases, to the next
important fair at Hull, which has for generations past immediately succeeded the Nottingham display, representing the idea that, in this respect at any rate, there is some community of lir terest between those who dwell at opposite stretches of the river which finds its confluence at the Humber. Innumerable cheap excursions, some coming from as -far south-west as Bristol and others from northern districts so far remote as Newcastle, were prominent features of prewar Goose Fair arrangements, but, whilst these have disappeared, a compensation was found again this year in a largelyenhanced volume of road traffic from Midland areas, Birmingham and Sheffield chars--banes contributing to the influx of visitors, with the Pottery towns adding a substantial quota to the total.