A Visit to the Royal Lancashire Show.
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The Interest of Carriers. Commercial Motors Well Placed.
Introduction.
The heritage of the Royal Show at Doncaster, in the matter of unfavourable weather, appeared to have descended upon Preston on Monday morning last. A party of show officials, who were breakfasting at the Park Hotel, at a table adjoining our own, looked very glum indeed, the while they discussed their ill-luck and the dwindling prospects of a good attendance on the closing day.
In regard to this matter of " gate " money, and the c:intinuing of the show over the week-end for the Bank Holiday. we cannot refrain from mentioning that some of the implement exhibitors take a view which distinctly opposed to that of the promoters of the show. They profess to find the attendance on a Bank Holiday just the wrong sort from the trade standpoint, and one of merely-curious sightseers. On the other hand, from personal observation and several c..)n versa tions which we held with interested owners, we are able to state that there were present in the Preston showyard on Monday last not a few representatives of important carrying interests, and quite a respectable number of owners of individual vehicles or small fleets : these latter are the men who will cause commercial motoring to envelop Lancashire with irresistible force before long.
Taking into consideration the arguments which we heard on both sides, we must hold that, for the Show or the Royal Lancashire Agricultural Society, there are good reasons to include the Bank Holiday in the dates, and we believe a direct return to exhibitors of commercial motors does result.
A commendable feature of the arrangement of the showyard was the grouping of the commercial-motor exhibits in quite the best position, adjoining the main entrance, and with the stands in close proximity one to another.