NEW CUNARDER
BOOKING FOR MAIDEN VOYAGE Already berths are being booked for the first sailing of the new Cunarder, Queen Mary, which was named and launched by the Queen at Clydebank on September 26. “We have had over 50 applications for berths on her initial trip from Southampton to New York, which will probably be in April, 1936,” said a Cunard official at Liverpool. “The applications come chiefly from business men. It is not merely the attraction of a maiden voyage that creates this demand so far ahead of the day. There is a psychological effect on a man's business if he is able to say he has just come over on a maiden trip of the world’s super liner. “That is such a proud claim in the eyes of some firms that certain American business men have actually arranged to cross the 3000 miles of Atlantic for the sole purpose of making the return journey to the United j States on the Queen Mary's maiden trip.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19944, 31 October 1934, Page 10
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