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FINAL attendance figures for the first National Exhibition Centre Motor Show have been put at 908,194 by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
This week an SMMT spokesman admitted that it would have been nice to have beaten the world record figure of just over one million people set up by the Frankfurt show but the SMMT is still pleased. with the figures.
He said that the final figure represents a 68 per cent in crease in attendance on the number of people who visited the last Motor Show and Commercial Motor Show in London when figures for the two shows were combined.
It is now certain that the 1980 Motor Show will follow the same format as the 1978 show but there will be one more hall to house the exhibits and the SMMT says that walkways in the next Show will be much wider and commercial vehicles will be given more room.