LINER QUEEN MARY
TESTING OF ENGINES 200,000 HORSE-POWER (British Official Wireless.) Heed. 12.15 p.iii. RUGBY, Dec. 28. There arc more than uOOO men at .vork on the Queen Mary, which is hie to leave the fitting out basin on lie Clydebank on March 24. The' 200,000 horse-power engines are being run in and tested while the ship is stationary iby disconnecting the drive o the propellers. Vibration has been educed to a minimum by mounting the entire engine units on rubber blocks and fitting the. cabins in the neiglihorlood of the engine-room with special inti-vibration apparatus. The ship is already generating her .',vn electricity.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18900, 30 December 1935, Page 6
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