AMERICA TO ENGLAND

Evening Star, Issue 19708, 8 November 1927, Page 5

AMERICA TO ENGLAND

DAILY EXPRESS STEAMERS ' PROJECT TAKES SHAPE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 6. (Received November S, at 9 a.m.) Mr Laurence Wilder’s project for establishing an express service of transatlantic steamers becomes operative in 1930, and will maintain a daily service from Long Island to Southampton and Havre. Tho American Shipping Board ■was won over by experiments with model vessels, and may grant a loan from tho fund of £23,000,000. The Brown, Boveri Company is sponsoring the project, which is entitled tho New York, London, Paris Steamship Company. otherwise tho Blue Ribbon Line. aro being laid down immediately, costing £3,200,000 apiece, and resembling huge destroyers. They will bo 800 ft long and 80ft wide, having twelve boilers using super-heated steam. —Sydney ‘Sun’ Cable.

[A message received-on September 17 stated:—Mr Laurence Wilder, an American shipbuilder, has arrived at Plymouth, and, according to tho ‘Daily News,’ has disclosed that he is considering, with other New York capitalists, the establishment of a daily service of express steamers between Bong Island and Plymouth, crossing tho Atlantic in four davs. Ten quadruple-screw turbine vessels of 20,000 tons will_ be engaged, with a speed of 30 to 33 knots. Each'will carry 400 passengers, and will have aeroplanes for, the delivery of mails. The requirements of passengers in the matter of air services will be arranged from tho termini to inland towns.]