Guide to the Show at Manchester.
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We Adopt New Methods, in Order to Assist Visitors to the City Hall Exhibition to Obtain as Much Information as Possible, with Very Little Trouble, when Examining the Various Stands. We Advise Reference to Our Analysed Indicator, which Follows, while Walking Round the Show.
The North of England Commercial-vehicle Show this year, which opens to-morrow (Erilay), the 30th inst. was, as our readers will recall, at one time threatened with total eclipse on account of the burning down of the Rusholme buildings where the Pleasure-car Show was to have been held., by individuals of a certain misguided group of amateur politicians. This militant step on their part adequately to promote their political objects did not, as mattsrs turned out, hinder the holding of a Pleasure-car Show. By prompt and astute action the Society's officials were able to arrange for its holding at the City Hall—the allotted venue for the commercial-motor exhibitors alone. The postponement of the latter's collective Show was part of the reconsidered sclierne, and, therefore, in all except a change of date, industrialvehicle exhibitors and their visitors have been unaffected by such an. unexpected happening as the burning down of Rusholme Exhibition Hall.
This year the Show bids fair to be as interesting as its immediate predecessor. There are not so many new models, but the machines which will be staged will be fully representative of all the many types for which the industry now finds ready employment. There will be a great increase in steam exhibits.
As is our custom, we have not been content to rest satisfied with the methods we have employed to date in respect of the treatment of exhibitions of this kind, and once again we present to our readers a guide to the Show modaled on lines which we consider will be even more helpful than efforts of a similar nature which we have made in the past.
We have confined ourselves this year very largely to a method of careful tabulation and analytical arrangement in respect of the exhibits and of the special features which are to be looked for on each stand. For example, we have arranged the list of exhibitors in alphabetical form in such manner that the stand numbers can be readily found upon reference. for any particular exhibitors, providing their names be remembered. Again, we have, with considerable care, grouped under load capacities and similar classifications the whole of the.individual exhibits in the Show, so that it is possible for the man, who, we will say, attends the exhibition with the specific desire to exarnirse whatever there may be in the City Hall of the two-ton category, to turn up this list and to find without delay where examples of this class can be found and who are the makers that are staging machines of such a type.
Our third, and perhaps most useful, method of classifying the exhibits has taken the form this year of an alphabetical arrangement of paragraphs, each indicating in a few words the individual exhibits to which we would specifically draw the attention of visitors. In no sense is this intended as a complete
guide to everything that should attract attention. nor, or course, can we venture in more than a geueral way thus to answer the many questions which may in imagination be put by the visitor who comes with some specific object in view. Nevertheless, we feel certain that this method of grouping viil be of great value to the large proportion of those who will pass the turnstiles at City Hall, and who may not necessarily have decided before their visit to confine their inquiries to one or two special lines.
Our final classification is in respect particularly of the vehicle exhibitors, and here we have designed a number of full-page illustrations, upon which will be found typical examples of each vehicle manufacturer's collective exhibit, with some indication of the machines, both chassis and complete vehicles, which will be included on each stand.
Finally, we refer to a specially-drawn map, which shows the location of the hotels, the principal railway termini, and other local points of moment, in respect of the City Hall. This also should be found useful by those of our readers who contemplate a visit to Manchester during the coming week, and who are unfamiliar with the topography of central Gottonopolis_ it is on page 477. One stand in the Show deserves the utmost and imperative consideration of the visitor. We are not about to single out the stand of any one maker. It is to the claims of the Commercial Motor Users Association that we refer, and the stand which we have in mind is No. .22A. As part of it faces one of the main gangways, it can scarcely fail to be noticed, but we now direct attention to it. The annual subscription is £1 Is.