'File 29/28 British Industrial Fair' [209r] (417/512)
The record is made up of 1 file (256 folios). It was created in 13 Sep 1934-24 Dec 1950. It was written in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Portuguese. 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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BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR, 1949
Record ol* Attendances
Attendance of Overseas Buyers
These figures are based on numbers of badges sold, so that a
trade buyer is counted only on his first visit to the Fair
and not on subsequent visits to any building.
AFRICA
Algeria - -
Angola (Portuguese)
Azores - -
Belgian Congo -
British Somaliland
Canary Islands
Cape Verde Islands
Egypt _ _ -
Eritrea
Ethiopia -
4
French Equitorial Africa
1
Nigeria - -
- 112
5
French West Africa
10
Nyasaland -
13
—
Gambia _ _ _
1
Northern Rhodesia
9
7
Gold Coast
73
Southern Rhodesia
79
3
Kenya _ _ _
132
Sierra Leone
39
21
Libya - - - -
3
South Africa
- 747
—
Madagascar
6
Sudan
51
263
Madeira _ _ _
6
Tanganyika-
21
3
Morocco - _ _
34
Tunisia
4
6
Mozambique -
—
Uganda
29
AUSTRALIA
Australia - - - 1131 New Zealand - - 357
CEN
TR AL
AMERICA AND
WEST
INDIES
Antigua _ _ _
1
French West Indies
_
Porto Rico -
Bahamas - _ _
5
Grenada _ _ _
1
Salvador
St. Kitts Nevis -
St. Lucia -
St. Vincent -
Barbados - - _
Bermuda - _ _
British Honduras
Cayman Islands -
7
16
1
5
Guatemala - - -
Hayti - - - -
Honduras Republic
Jamaica _ _ _
10
35
Costa Rica - - -
3
Mexico _ _ _
27
1
Tobago
Cuba - -
5
Montserrat - - -
Trinidad
Dominica (B.W.I.) -
1
Nicaragua - - -
Turks Island
Dominican Republic -
1
Panama _ _ _
7
Virgin Island
36
EU ROPE
Albania - -
2
France
Austria
90
Germany -
Belgium - -
- 818
Gibraltar -
Bulgaria
2
Greece
Czechoslovakia -
50
Holland
Denmark -
- 631
Hungary
Eire - - -
- 994
Iceland -
Faroe Islands -
5
Italy and Sicily
Finland - -
- 275
Luxemburg -
756
Malta -
- 102
88
Norway -
- 853
30
Poland -
- - 41
127
Portugal
- 173
1364
Rumania -
- - 3
35
Spain -
- 362
165
Sweden
- 1054
249
Switzerland -
- 572
10
Yugoslavia -
- - 38
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This file contains correspondence, promotional material and other documents related to the British Industries Fair (BIF) in London and other similar events in London, including a mechanical handling conference (1948) and an engineering and marine exhibition (1949).
The file contains a number of invitations to attend the fair that were sent to prominent merchants in Bahrain by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain as well as replies sent back by these merchants. Much of this correspondence is in Arabic (with English translations).
The file also contains promotional material related to the BIF and other events including the following:
- a pamphlet written by Malcolm Logan entitled 'Story of the B.I.F.' The pamphlet is in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese (folios 142-149);
- two posters for the Mechanical Handling Conference in London 1948, one in French (folio 151) and one in English (folio 152);
- a pamphlet entitled 'Background to the B.I.F.' (folios 203-210).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (256 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 256; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 4-117; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled (except for a few circled numbers which have been crossed out).
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- IOR/R/15/2/1755
- Title
- 'File 29/28 British Industrial Fair'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:19v, 23r:36v, 40r, 41r:41v, 40v, 42r:63v, 67r:72v, 76r:76v, 80r:82v, 84r:95v, 97r:134v, 136r:210v, 212r:222v, 224r:233v, 235r:255v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence