MILLIONAIRE KEPT AWAKE

Taranaki Daily News, 6 June 1930, Page 11

MILLIONAIRE KEPT AWAKE

LINERS THAT CREAK. The disgust of an American millionaire who, having paid between £2OO and £3OO for a passage on a liner, is kept awake night after night by the vessel’s creaking, was discussed at a meeting of tho Institution of Naval Architects in London recently. Dr. 1 5 . A. Hillhouse, of Glasgow, said that of four liners in which h© had travelled recently—two on the Pacific and two on tho Atlantic, three pitched from begininng to end of the voyage, one rolled and all creaked. When he asked whether there was creaking in battleships, Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Wester Weinyss, th© president, replied with an emphatic Yes. Dr. Hillhouse: Well, will someone come* forward with an infallible cure for creaking? ..... Mr. A, D. Constable, of the Admiralty, said that he had no doubt of the superiority at present of a properly-designed turbo-electric drive for the projected new fast British Atlantic liners. A suitable installation could be supplied by British engineering firms. Mr. W. J. Besley said that iho average passenger did not caro about, nor was h© interested in, fuel consumption, He would choose the ship which was Iquietest and freest from vibration.