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Show )how Circuit in Europe Will Open at Paris Oct 9 PAEIS, Sept. 10. Europe will initiate its series of motor car 6hows, interrupted by the war, October 9 at the Paris salon. The opening ceremony will be performed per-formed by President Poincare, assisted by the leading members of the French government. This will be the first purely motor car exhibition held in Europe for six years and the first time that European makers have placed on view their wares produced with all the valuable experience of war behind them. France is favored in having available for its annual motor show the most handsome and one of the biggest halls to be found anywhere in the world. The million-dollar Grand Palais was built for the Paris fair in 1900 and is government property, loaned to the bbow committee at a nominal fee. The arrangement by which the Paris show comes first is an international one. Next year London will have the priority. Entries for Show. This year's show is open to touring cars, trucks, bodies, motorcycles, stationary sta-tionary engines and accessories. At yne time it had been thought that a special hall would be built for the trucks. This idea, however, has been abandoned, the trucks being put in the same hall as the cars, but given smaller and less prominent stands. The decision also has been made to put on. exhibition one sample of every type of motor vehicle used in the war. In order not to encroach on the space of trade exhibitors, a special hall is being be-ing erected on the gardens adjoining the Grand Palais for this military exhibition. ex-hibition. This section, which is under the control of the ministry of war, will contain staff cars, motorcycles, ambulances, ambu-lances, searchlight cars, armored cars, tanks, motorized gun carriages, special trailers and numerous army vehicles the existence of which hardly is known to the general public. Applications for space exceed all previous pre-vious records. More than 800 individual indi-vidual stands have been rented, and it has only been possible to get in all applicants by reducing considerably the maximum size of stands and by makiDg use of every available corner in the big hall. The total amount of spaco rented is 325,000 square feet, roughly equivalent to seven and a half acres. Americans Not Favored. The salon is open to all but late enemy en-emy subjects. Every motor car manufacturing manu-facturing concern in France, Italy, Switzerland and Spain has secured space. American participation is the biggest on record, which is rather surprising sur-prising in view of the fact that American Ameri-can firms are given the least consideration considera-tion in the matter of positions. Notwithstanding Not-withstanding this, United States manufacturers manu-facturers have been remarkably lucky in the drawing of lots for positions, for while shut out of the big central stands, they have secured what may be termed the cream of the second-rank positions. Apart from American accessory makers who exhibit direct or through dealers, the following American firms will be present with car exhibits: Cadillac, Overland, Buick, Chevrolet, Hupmobile, Maxwell, Mitchell, Scripps-Booth, Scripps-Booth, Oldsmobile, Oakland, Case, Allen, Al-len, Paige, GMC and Pierce-Arrow. It will be noticed that Ford is absent. Although Al-though selling iu France more cars than any two other American firms, the Ford representatives declare they have no need for the Paris salon. The same attitude has been adopted by Rolls-Royce, who, according to one of the show officials, objected to the high price of the stands. RollB-Royce, like Ford, is a big seller in France, and has maintained expensive showrooms in the Camps Elysees throughout the war, although al-though he has naturally done no private business during that time. American tire firms at the Paris salon are Goodrich, Goodyear and U. S. Motor Age, September 25. |