CONTROL FROM BRIDGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 97, 27 April 1938, Page 16

CONTROL FROM BRIDGE.

FIRE-FIGHTING IN NEW GIANT LINER. GLASGOW. Rapid changes are taking place inside the Cunard-White Star giant liner Queen Elizabeth at Clydebank. Polished panel wood is being installed in cabins, and the work of wiring them up for electricity will soon begin.

A start has been made oil the air conditioning system. First-class passengers, by flicking a lever, will be able to turn on hot, cold, tepid or perfumed air. Scented air is produced by artificial draughts passing through pipes in which scented sponge-like material will be placed. The air passing through the sponges will percolate into the cabins and the perfume desired will depend on the sponges it passes through. Work has .begun on the fire fighting equipment. Water tubes are being laid everywhere and connected with the bridge, from which the apparatus will be controlled. Smoke from remote parts of the ship will be wafted into glass tubes on the bridge. The look-out man, seeing it, will know where the outbreak

is, and. by pressing a button, will isolate the section and deluge it with water. Heat will quench the flames in the passengers' quarters. Coloured bulbs will explode under heat and the room will be sprayed with water. Passages and stairways are designed so that no draughts wiil be present to fan flames. If the oil fuel aboard catches fire it will be bombarJed with an emulsion which will smother the flames.