Container exhibitions: a growing programme
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• To follow the successful International Container Services and Equipment Exhibition at Olympia last month, Mack-Brooks Exhibitions Ltd. has plans for a further three similar shows in America, Australia and London.
The second of these exhibitions will be from October 28 to November I this year, at Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The third will be in Melbourne, Australia, from June 23 to 27 next year and the fourth at Olympia, London, from June 1-5 1970, The Melbourne exhibition next June will follow on the introduction of the EuropeAustralia full containerization service which is due to start next February. Concurrent with the Melbourne show, an international conference will be sponsored by the International Cargo Handling Co-ordination Association and the Melbourne Chamber ofCommerce, in conjunction with the Board of Trade, is sponsoring and organizing a spec ial group display for British companies, exhibitors being given financial assistance, including 150 sq. ft. of free stand space. Also the BoT will pay half the return air fares of two stand executives and will assist with return freight charges on unsold exhibits.
Further information is available from John Legate, Industrial and Trade Fairs Ltd., Commonwealth House, New Oxford Street, London, WC1, or Mack-Brooks Exhibitions Ltd., 96 Hatton Garden, London, EC 1.
Meanwhile, it has been announced that the SMMT and Iliffe Exhibitions are jointly organizing an International Freight Container Exhibition at Earls Court, London from September 22 to 26 1969. The show will be staged by the freight container industry and will be held in alternate years so as not to clash with the Commercial Motor Show.