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'File 10/8 Overseas trade enquiries' [‎73r] (147/495)

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The record is made up of 1 file (249 Folios). It was created in 23 Jul 1929-29 Nov 1934. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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[Reference : 33500/29.] CONFIDENTIAL .
Overseas Trade Circular.
BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR, 1930.
The attached Memorandum has been prepared, as in previous years, tor the
purpose of giving information respecting the Fair, together with general instruc
tions, to His Majesty's Trade Commissioners, Commercial Diplomatic Officers,
Consular Officers and Imperial Trade Correspondents.
E. F. CROWE.
Department of Overseas Trade.
10th August, 1929.
Note. —This circular memorandum has been sent in duplicate to:
(1) H.M, Representatives for information, with extra copies for communication to
Commercial Diplomatic Officers and Superintending Consular Officers.
(2) Usual outlying posts.
(3) H.M. Trade Commissioners.
(4) Certain Imperial Trade Correspondents.
MEMORANDUM.
I.— Date and site.
1. The Fair, the 16th of the series, will be held from the 17th to the 28th
February, inclusive, at Olympia, London, and Castle Bromwich, Birmingham.
The former section will be organised by the Department of Overseas Trade, and
the latter by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce under the auspices of the
Department. The sections are complementary to one another, the whole forming
the British Industries Fair. A schedule is sub-joined showing the allocation of
the trades to the London and Birmingham sections.
II.— Growth of the Fair.
2. All previous records were broken at the 1929 Fair, the number of
exhibitors being 2,438, and the space occupied 530,000 square feet (net)—320,000
square feet in London and 210,000 square feet in Birmingham. The correspond
ing figures for 1928 were 2,123 exhibitors, occupying 434,000 square feet of space..
The attendance of buyers from home and abroad was also a record one in 1929.
III.— New buildings for the London Fair.
3. The London section of the Fair, which is organised by the Department
of Overseas Trade, will be held for the first time in its new home at Olympia,
which is being specially enlarged for the purpose by the addition of a new four-
storey building. The new building will not be completed until the 1931 Fair,
but two floors will be ready for occupation by February next, and, by means
of bridging the galleries of the existing buildings and other reconstruction work,
there will be ready for the coming Fair a large two-storey exhibition building,
which is believed to be the first of its size and kind in the country.
4. Owing to the impossibility of completing the new building in time, the
available space next February will be less than that occupied at White City
in February of this year—260,000 square feet as compared with 320,000—but
the advantages of moving at once to the new site are considered by the Depart
ment and by its advisory committee of exhibitors to outweigh the reduction of
space, which, moreover, will be only for the one year. In 1931, when the four-
storey building is complete, there will be as much space as was used at the White
City, and ample provision can be made in subsequent years for the expected
steady growth of the Fair.

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Correspondence between the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and customs officials in Bahrain, and United Kingdom companies relating to trade in Bahrain. The file includes papers concerning an upsurge in orders for bicycles in Bahrain, 1929. Other commodities covered include mother of pearl and the pearl trade, Lingah shells (known in European markets as 'Bombay shells'), bedsteads, margarine and related products, electric generating sets and motor engines for motor launches, cloth, cotton, silks, machine tools, condensed milk and chocolate, biscuits, sharks' skins, locks, sport goods, scotch whisky and a proposal for a golf course. The objective was to increase the volume and range of trade carried on in Bahrain by British firms. The papers also include reports, and correspondence with local companies in Bahrain.

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1 file (249 Folios)
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The papers are arranged chronologically from the front to the rear of the file.

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Foliation: The system of foliation in use appears in a circle in the top right-hand corner of each folio. The file is also foliated 1-15, 19-256 (uncircled).

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