MERSEY TUNNEL
GREAT TASK FINISHED. LONDON, Wednesday. Their Majesties, the King and Queen, n<ent to Liverpool to-day, where the King will open the Mersey tunnel, which cost £8,000,000, is two miles long and 44 feet wide, and which has taken 2000 workmen eight years to build. It is designed exclusively for motor traffic, and is the world’s largest under-water roadway. It will link Liverpool and Bootle on the Lancashire side with Birkenhed and Wallasey on the Cheshire side.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 July 1934, Page 5
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78MERSEY TUNNEL Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 July 1934, Page 5
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