NEW SUPER-LINER

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1938, Page 10

NEW SUPER-LINER

■e* — FIRE-FIGHTING PLANS. GLASGOW. March 12. Rapid changes are taking place inside the Canard- White Star giant liner Queen Elizabeth, at Clydebank. Polished panel wood l is being, installed in cabins, and, the work of wiring them up for •electricity 'will soon begin. A start has been made on the air conditioning system, and 1 am told that first-class passengers, by flicking a lever, will be able to turn on hot. cold, tepid oi' 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 l on the sponges it passes through. Work began to-day on the fire-fight-ing equipment. Water tubes are being laid everywhere anti connected' with the bridge, from which the apparatus will be controlled. Smoke front remote parts of the ship will be wafted into glass tubes on the bridges. 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 flames in the passengers’ quarters. Coloured bulbs 1 will explode tinder heat, and the room will be sprayed with water. Passages and stairways are designed :-o that no draughts will be present :o fan flames. If the 1 oil fuel aboard matches fire it will be bombarded ,v,ith an emulsion which will smother he flames.