Train invited 1,200 of the great and the good to his super-luncheon (I think it was held in a warehouse on Birkenhead docks), including peers, MPs, most of the crowned heads of Europe, and the Pope. About 350 people turned up for the meal, but not the Pope.
The Banquet was held in the workshop of Robert Main, the coachbuilder who assembled the trams, which had been shipped over from America. This was located at the junction of Canning Street and Argyle Street, roughly where the entrance to Wirral Archives is now (at that time Argyle Street carried on down to Shore Road across what is now the car park for the Cheshire Lines Building).