World Engineering Congress Tokyo 1929

Mr R W Allen of WH Allen Limited attended the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo in 1929.

He was treated to an evening of Japanese Dance:

This photograph shows the dancers on stage. Below we have another photoraph of the audience:

It is not clear whether the writer of the caption on the back of the above photograph (below) was being ironic!

Why is this document at Bedfordshire & Luton Archives?

R W Allen was the British delegate for the University of Cambridge, the University of London and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. All delegates at the World Engineering Congres in 1929 received a souvenir photo album. This document [ref.AQ11/2/3] is part of the W H Allen archive held here.