SISTER SHIP TO QUEEN MARY
Chancellor’s Statement
(British Official Wireless.) (Received June 19, 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, June 19.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, announced in the House of Commons that he had agreed in principle to an application which he had received from the Cunard-White Star Company for the use of the sum available under the North Atlantic Act for the construction of a sister-ship to the Queen Mary. He had reserved the right to further consultation before the contract was signed. Meantime the company had obtained preliminary tenders from various shipbuilding firms, but he understood that after considering these, they would negotiate in the first instance with Messrs. John Brown, builders of the Queen Mary. The place of building must be for the company to decide on the technical and commercial merits of the case.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 226, 20 June 1936, Page 9
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139SISTER SHIP TO QUEEN MARY Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 226, 20 June 1936, Page 9
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