Transportation Giants Vie for Trans -Atlantic Speed Records
Transportation, bv air and water, has improved beyond man’s ability to comprehend. And with improvement compel,tioinTor speed and incogs ’follows. So much so that to-day tliero is a three-cornered ocean race between a supership of the air a.idjavo p -the sen Back in 1819, the Savannah, the first steamship to make a trans-Atlantic voyage, pufied array, from Savannah, W, and 27 days ; la er landed at Liverpool, England. ' Soon the Queen Mary, the British super liner will point her bow toward New York and arrive there m- four few hours The French liner, Normandie, recently, altered, will be the Queen Mary’s competitor of the water. Meanwhile ,n the am, , the LZI29, khb#h as tho Von Hinclenbiirg, will bb in the rabo as the nbw sky queen. Contrast tho new giant of the air with an. early type Zeppelin, shown ABOVE:' “TliFtilw'Zeppelin is much siieeclfer thrin the ti'etf ocean linett.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12869, 23 May 1936, Page 5
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157Transportation Giants Vie for Trans-Atlantic Speed Records Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12869, 23 May 1936, Page 5
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