IUMBER TERtnINAL, lNC.

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Bill Eogon

Building Mqferiqls Corovqn To Begin Nqtion-Wide Tour

Washington, D.C.-I'lans for a gala premiere shorving of the Producers' Council's Caravan of Qualitl' Building Products and Modular Application have been announced by the organization's president, William Gillett. Tl-re event rvill take place September 7 and 8 in Chicago at the Palmer House, rvhen this $200.000 traveling materials and ecluipment exhibition rn'ill begin a seven-months tour which will take it from coast to coast over a 25,000-mi1e itir-rerary rvith showings in 35 other major cities.

Forty-five exhibits displaying the products of 43 manulacturers and trade associations r,vill be transported in a specially constructed van-the largest allou.able on the highr,vays. A three-man crew will travel rvith the show. With the help of local labor, they r.r,ill be able to erect and dismantle the exhibition in less than eight hours.

Viewing this vear's Caravan at each of its shou'ings rvill be an invited audience of architects, builders, contractors, dealers, engineers and government buyers and specifiers. Each shorving tvill be sponsored locally by one of the Council's 36 chapters. N{any new materials, new ideas and new application techniques rvill be displayed. Several firms have planned exhibits rvhich will show application of materials dimensioned by the modular system.

Caravan committee chairman John Moore, U. S. Plywood Corp., has invited to witness the first shorving over 1,100 arclritects, 63O engineers, 1500 home builders, 745 contractors and 725 lumber dealers.

Companies participating rvith exhibits include Ceco Steel