The Manchester Show.
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ttendances at Manchester, during the first few days of the Exhibition, were not up to the expectations of exhibitors, but inquiry at the stands shows that a considerable proportion of the attendance was of business men who were there for business purposes. Tuesday last, of course, being Manchester market day, was in many cases found to be the best day of all. The continued presence of motor-producing and allied principals is probably the best testimony to the value that is attached by the industry at large to the opportunities which have been and are still afforded them at the City Hall. Our illustrated report of the Show will be found on pages 549-56a Lack of space prevents our dealing, other than in the course of a paragraph, with the proceedings at the dinner on the night which preceded the opening of the Show. We are convinced that a sufficient demand is already disclosed for the provision in Manchester of a new exhibition hall. Such a hall is essential, whether it be considered from the view-points of owners of private cars or commercial motors. Manufacturers, of course, provided the extra charges that will fall upon them are not appreciably greater than now, must be unanimously in favour of such provision. The problem is, how to find space for a new building, or the means of adapting some existing building_ Co-operation between the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and the Manchester or Salford Corporation, should not, in our judgment, leave that task for long an insuperable one. Steps should be taken at once. Rusholme is too far out, were extensions there possible.