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KING’S VISIT TO GIANT LINER. UP THE WORKMEN’S GANGWAY. SALUTE BY HUNDREDS OF MEN. Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, March 6. An absolute lack of ceremony and formality marked the King’s visit to the liner Queen Mary. His Majesty drove from Clydebank railway station to the ship yard, through lines of cheering people. The Queen Mary was not decorated. The King used the ordinary workmen’s gangway in its workaday condition of grime and coal-dust. Hundreds of workmen crowded the sides of the liner and cheered as the King went aboard. His Majesty acknowledged the salute by removing and waving his bowler hat. At the King’s request the tour of the ship was confined to the Royal paity, which visited several of the first-class state rooms, the officers’ quarters, and the engine-rooms. The King also inspected the thirdclass, declaring it equal to the first before the: war. At the conclusion of a two and three-quarter-hour tour or the liner his'Majesty said' he was very pleased with everything he had seen. The King chatted with the captain and other officers. A number of foremen and workmen were also l presented to him.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 123, 6 March 1936, Page 6
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