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I agree with your editorial on the Motor Show (CM, October 27) issue, but possibly for totally different reasons.
It should be renamed the Queuemercial Motor Show if my experience, and that of my friends, is anything to go by. One colleague arriving from the North, gave up at 3.00pm on Tuesday, October 24 and returned home without entering the complex.
Others queued to get off the car park, purchase tickets, and obtain food from the various restaurants and were then asked over the loud speaker system if they would leave as soon as they had seen the exhibition, to allow more people to be admitted. What cheek! And finally we had to queue to get out.
What overseas visitors, and buyers in particular, must have thought about the chaos — and the resultant loss of business can only be left to conjecture — time alone will tell. One sure thing is that the caterers must have made more profits than some of the exhibitors.
A well known commercial vehicle manufacturer told me that he doubted if he would exhibit again in the circumstances which prevailed last week, and I say the commercial section should be divorced from the car show and the latter spread over at least two halls to relieve the congestion and allow people to view stands in comfort.
R. H. C. PHILBY, Gloucester