British Motor Show - Farnborough International

After attending the pop up events in Hook and Salisbury we were delighted to be asked if we would like to be part of the main British Motor Show event at Farnborough. Andy had managed to work it so that we could team up with Draper in the Kit Car Zone which was situated at the entrance of Hall 5.

We visited the site with Andy and Kelly a few weeks before the show to get an idea of what sort of space we were working with and to come up with a theme. The plan was that Draper were going to fit their display racks around the outside and we were going to display some of our cars in the centre. The brief was that we could pretty much do what we wanted as long as we didn’t restrict foot traffic through the foyer. We also had some space outside that we were going to share with Nigel from Draper who was himself displaying a couple of cars

Belinda is going to cover all the drama that led up to the show and how we nearly didn’t make it so I wont go into loads of detail as I’m sure she will cover in lots of detail. She is also going to cover the ins and outs of the show including sharing a taxi with some celebs.

Although worn out we all thoroughly enjoyed the show over the four days and as always we are so privileged to have been invited on this journey that is the British Motor Show. I really don’t know how a small team can do such a great job and full credit to them.

So my blog is more to share some photos and do the Oscars bit of thanking everyone.

Thanks to :-

Andy and his team at Automotion who did an amazing job to pull this off,

Sam and his celebrity friends who have made us so welcome along the way,

Nigel at Draper tools for allowing us to share his space

Alpine F1 SIM Racing for allowing us to plug our kettle in,

Security and cleaning staff at Farnborough International for keeping our area safe and clean

I think our only niggle would be that there were a couple of jobsworth Farnborough events staff who on occasion made our lives and that of some other exhibitors a little difficult along the way. Guys, we all understand the importance of health and safety but you can take things a little too far sometimes. At the end of the day what ever you put in place people are human and can still manage to do daft things. It that wasn’t the case we wouldn’t get people putting silly things in microwave ovens despite comprehensive instructions.