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I gather that the IRTE is more than a little disappointed at the response to its invitation to manufacturers to display vehicles and equipment at its conference-time exhibition in Birmingham. Not through any lack of interest on the part of the makers themselves, but because there seems to have been SMMT discouragement. The SMMT has pretty firm rules about this sort of thing, but as I understand it they are intended to control indiscriminate commercial exhibiting by members.
Could there not perhaps be a less restrictive application of the rules for at least the professional, non-profit-making bodies such as IRTE? Especially when the aim was to provide an "education/safety package" comprising lectures in the morning and exhibition in the afternoon.