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Article: Motoring: Major success for Birmingham motor show.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2002
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THERE'S no business like show business for the motor industry.
The doors closed on the British Motor Show at the NEC last Sunday, with an estimated 500,000 visitors having passed through them, and manufacturers have been totting up the new business generated at Britain's biggest consumer exhibition.
Exhibitors and visitors are estimated to have added more than pounds 30 million to the economy in the West Midlands, with 20,000 local people involved in staging the UK's premier automotive showcase.
MG Rover took orders worth more than pounds 1 mil-lion on the first day alone, and the firm's final count showed in excess of 1,000 orders were taken, ...