THE MOTOR SHOW

What the Parc des Expositions de la Porte de Versailles could offer in 1925 at the Motor Show
40,000 SQUARE METERS OF BUILDINGS

Every time the question of the 1925 Motor Show is raised, the name of the Parc des Expositions de la Porte de Versailles is mentioned at least once.
What is this Parc des Expositions?
When the City of Paris decided that the Fair of the same name would no longer be held around the Champ-de-Mars, the interested organizations looked, with the City Council, for a location for the Paris Fair. The Porte Champerret, the Jardin d'Acclimatation, the land known as the Parc des Princes (next to the velodrome) were considered. Finally, the Vaugirard brickyards were considered. A Société Immobilière des Foires et Expositions was formed. The City granted it, in return for certain fees that do not interest us today, approximately 40 hectares of land. The Company set to work. Some expropriations have not yet been made, but the currently free land allows the Company to begin its work, so that the following dates have already been granted:
January 17 Exhibition of agricultural machinery; February 11: Poultry exhibition; March 10 Agricultural competition; May 10: Paris Fair end of June or beginning of July: General competition of breeding animals of the equine breed.
As it was necessary to go to the most urgent, and after major leveling work, the Company carried out two types of constructions at the same time: temporary halls, which will last five or six years, and permanent halls.

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What will be, in 1925
the Parc des Expositions
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The temporary constructions
Under the direction of Mr. Martel, we visited the immense construction site yesterday. Three temporary halls will be finished by January.
The first will be 16,400 square meters and will be divided into 11 halls of 20 meters each. Iron trusses, brick walls, glass roof. Electrical installation, water supply. The second hall, built under the same conditions, will be 4,800 square meters; the third, identical to the first two, 4,000 square meters. In all, 25,200 square meters.

The definitive constructions
The first of the definitive buildings is currently being built, in reinforced concrete. It will have a ground floor reserved for a restaurant and administrative services, and a first floor divided into three halls which will be accessed on the same level by a ramp that will be the width of the building. Total surface area: 4,500 square meters. Central heating. Electricity. Water, etc. Two large car garages are also planned, one of which will be located between the Porte de la Plaine and the Porte Brancion, and the other will border the Rue du 4-Septembre.

What could be ready in October
By October 1925, five major exhibitions will have already passed. The three temporary buildings will have to be ready for the first of them. The first permanent hall will be ready for the Paris Fair, but this last exhibition will also require the construction, by May, and the ground is currently being leveled, of several other temporary halls which will bring, by October, to 40,000 square meters the surface area of ​​the buildings that could be used for the Motor Show.
Other details
We pass over in silence many other details given by Mr. Martel, notably on the additional garages that will be built after January 1925; the complete enclosure of the 40-hectare Park; the project of a goods station to be started and perhaps completed next year on the State network, Paris-Montparnasse line, 50 meters from the Ouest- Ceinture station. Its development will be rapid, because one side of the Park will run alongside the railway; the concession terms; the organization of the restaurant; those of the telephone and telegraph lines, etc.
Nor will we say what has been planned to improve the already very numerous means of transport that end or will end at the Porte de Versailles, because that will be the subject of a separate study.
What we wanted to show today is the current state of the Parc des Expositions, which is mentioned in connection with the 1925 Motor Show. Mr. 0.