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UNUSUAL FEATURES. (Received Thursday, 5.35 a.m.) LONDON, Wednesday. The “Times” Paris correspondent says that an unusual feature of Franco’s new GO,OOO-ton, 1029 ft. long, tuvbo-clectrie driven liner Normandie, which is being launched at Saint Naz■niirc, is the throe unequal funnels, the li-rst being higher than the second and the second higher than the third. They are designed to lead off the smoke, so that neither fumes nor dirt touch the ship. A high, bulbous c-ruiser bow will keep the slurp dry. There are -eleven decks, live running from stem to stern, and the public rooms are grouped round a lofty ha-11, including a winter garden, concert dance hal-ls, and roof garden.
There are six wireless installations and two wireless telephones. There is accommodation for 930 first-class passengers, 6-S0 tourist and 560 third -class. The average speed of the linear will be 30 knots. —“Times.”
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 October 1932, Page 5
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