100ste RAI

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The RAI, the Dutch bicycle and automotive industry, organises its hundredth exhibition. In 1895, the RAI, which was then called R.I. (Rijwiel Industrie), held the first exhibition featuring only bicycles. In 1922 the RAI got its own building in Amsterdam and since then has organised exhibitions designed to stimulate car use and sales. SHOTS: ext. RAI; fourteenth exhibition of commercial vehicles in the RAI, featuring trucks, vans and pick-ups. ARCHIVES MATERIAL: Photograph of the Paleis voor Volksvlijt where the first RAI exhibition was held; antique cars on the road; photograph of the ext. of the old RAI building in 1922; a car having to wait for a passing steam tram; tolls; during the Second World War, cars were fuelled by logs or ran on gas; a car with a coal generator; bicycles during the war with wooden tyres, tyres made of garden hose, and without tyres; Princess Beatrix and Queen Juliana on bicycles; mopeds and scooters; American cars, some with a built-in record player; traffic jams; a caravan exhibition in the RAI.

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