Great Engellex
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To the Great and Industrious Nations of Europe,
The Great Exposition of 1952 will stand out in history as one of the most important events in the progress of civilisation. No other event, up to this period, has extended its interest over so large a surface of Europe, or engaged the anxious thoughts of so many of the human family. In every quarter of Europe, men will have been employed in making preparations, collecting meterials, and taxing their ingenuity and skill to compete in this might and peaceful contest. Millions of men, women, and children compose the armies in this battle of production, industrial and cultural, and thousands and thousands, throngs from all grades of society, will witness it, to derive gratification and benefit in a great variety of forms, while it will be presented to still greater numbers by the aid mechanical pictures, by descriptions in the languages of the principal nations, and by each eye-witness becoming, as it were, a lecturer upon what he has seen, when he returns to his own country. Indeed, as far as civilisation extends, there will hardly be a nook so obscure, or a person so ignorant, as not to have heard something of this titanic show. Besides the incalculable influence it must exercise on the taste, skill, knowledge, and commerce of Europe, it will probably go far towards the suppression aggression and difference toward her Majesty’s Empire; and it may be considered with very great propriety as the first real peace congress of Europe, since nearly all the principal powers of Europe will be represented, in many instances by the most eminent men in politics, science, literature, arts, manufactures, commerce, and skilled sport.
As Crown Subjects, we are proud that this great Fair of Europe takes place in our imperial metropolis, but, as philanthropists, we are glad that it is so, because no other place would, perhaps, have afforded so many facilities for making so gigantic an experiment; indeed, no ordinary capital could even provide the accommodation for the vast congregation of visitors. But it is to our first Queen-Empress, Adelaide, that we must yield the honour of having originated and developed great industrial and cultural expositions, gradually extending them from a local to a truly national character, and, by the exercise of the most enlightened views, succeeding in holding them upon a grand scale, and in giving them immense importance. The success of the Hammersmith Exhibition of Industry and Science 1860 was so great, that Queen-Empress Adelaide resolved to institute them annually in her reign, and to give them a national character; but, in spite of the Court circular to that effect, the commercial commotions of the times prevented the next exposition from taking place till 1872, twelve years after, and then, perhaps, only in consequence of the great exertions made by the Queen-Empress Adelaide herself, who insisted on visiting factories and commerce houses of the principal towns and cities of Great Engellex, taking with her many distinguished men of Government and industry, stimulating all she saw to efforts for progress, and , in many notable instances, bestowing rewards, including peerages. That second official exposition took place in Ingelger Square of the royal city of Lewes-Bassett under exquisite pavilions. The national exhibitions were held annually from 1872, but ceased at the death of Queen-Empress Adelaide in 1917. Upon the accession of Queen Charlotte, as her Majesty was on coronation, in 1941, Dulwich, Hammersmith, Lewes-Bassett, Biden, and Enfield successfully held Coronation Fairs, chiefly composed of the productions of the immediate counties surrounding them; the one which most nearly approached the Adelaide Expositions, in the variety and extent of the national productions displayed, was the Hammersmith Fair of Trade and Industry, which not only was eminently successful, but excited the greatest interests as an exhibition of 20th century Engellexic trade and manufactures.
Unaware of the propositions being detailed in the Imperial Metropolis, the Biden Minister of Agriculture and Forestry addressed a circular to the Chambers of Commerce of Wantage, proposing that specimens of skill in agriculture and manufactures from the enlarged Grand Duchy should be admitted to an exposition he was desiring in the Grand Ducal capital, Biden, and asking the of opinion of the personages of commerce and industry. The answers he received induced him to abandon the idea, when it was at once adopted by her Majesty the Queen-Empress Charlotte, with the appointed Royal Commission at its head. It was, however, no longer confined merely to the nation, but, with the highest degree og enlightenment, it was extended to the whole of civilised Europe. All of the Empire of Great Engellex, and all people, with whom we have commercial communication, are hereby invited, upon perfectly equal terms with her Majesty’s Crown Subjects, to join in one grand exposition of the civilisation, as it stands in its progress, of Europe.
His Excellency, Sir Aurelian Fawkes of West March
The Estate of the Great Exposition 1952 :-
Contractor, Benedict Henderson, Esq. Queen’s Architect, Arthur Wyatt, Esq. Contractor, Rudolf Fox, Esq.
Commissioned Officers of the Works,
Henry Smallwick, Esq. Owen Rochford, Esq.
Commissioned Officer of Finances,
Lennard, Baron van Haasnoot.
Members of the Estate Building Committee,
Sir Charles Barry. Sir Joseph Paxton. Sir John Vanbrugh. Alfred Waterhouse, Esq. William Wilkins, Esq.
Members of the Estate Finance Committee,
Sir Arthur Cecil Pigou. Thomas Robert Malthus, Esq. Joseph Crosfield, Esq.
Treasurers of the Estate,
Sir Alfred de Tothschild. Elizabeth Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey. Renly Walpole, Earl of Orford.
Samuel Hood, Viscount Hood. Beatrix Beauclerk, Duchess of Woolwich.
Chief Officer of the Executive Committee,
George Wentworth, Esq.
Executive Committee,
Sir Andrew Rossier. Sir Charles Lubbock. Sir George Cotton-Paxton.
Commissioned Officers of the Works,
Henry Smallwick, Esq. Owen Rochford, Esq.
Commissioned Officer of Finances,
Lennard, Baron van Haasnoot.
Members of the Estate Building Committee,
Sir Charles Barry. Sir Joseph Paxton. Sir John Vanbrugh. Alfred Waterhouse, Esq. William Wilkins, Esq.
Members of the Estate Finance Committee,
Sir Arthur Cecil Pigou. Thomas Robert Malthus, Esq. Joseph Crosfield, Esq.
Treasurers of the Estate,
Sir Alfred de Tothschild. Elizabeth Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey. Renly Walpole, Earl of Orford.
Samuel Hood, Viscount Hood. Beatrix Beauclerk, Duchess of Woolwich.
Chief Officer of the Executive Committee,
George Wentworth, Esq.
Executive Committee,
Sir Andrew Rossier. Sir Charles Lubbock. Sir George Cotton-Paxton.
The Royal Commission :-
Chairman of the Royal Commission,
Sir Aurelian Fawkes.
Royal Commissioners,
Alexander Eaglet, Marquis of Bath. Julian Arbuthnot, the Duke of Camden. Sir Christian Baring.
Cantigian Ambassador to Dulwich. Albert Egerton-Pease, Viscount Egerton. James Lowther, Earl of Swillington.
Sir Aurelian Fawkes.
Royal Commissioners,
Alexander Eaglet, Marquis of Bath. Julian Arbuthnot, the Duke of Camden. Sir Christian Baring.
Cantigian Ambassador to Dulwich. Albert Egerton-Pease, Viscount Egerton. James Lowther, Earl of Swillington.
Participating Nations of Europe :-
Nation - Foreign Commissioner
Empire of Great Engellex
Engellexic Zadar-Istrian Islands - Sir Kenneth Rownstowe
Engellexic Bimbeck Islands - Sir Michael Crawley
Empire of Great Engellex
Engellexic Zadar-Istrian Islands - Sir Kenneth Rownstowe
Engellexic Bimbeck Islands - Sir Michael Crawley
