Lord Pirrie has vouchsafed the opinion that the 100,000-ton liner is not an impossibility. At all events, tendencies are hurrying to that goal. In ten years the liner has leaped from 20,000 to 60 ; 000 tons, and should the same rate of progress be maintained during the succeeding decade, the twentieth year of the twentieth century will see the 100,000-tonner within measurable distance. The Olympic points the way.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 401, 4 October 1911, Page 5
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68Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 401, 4 October 1911, Page 5
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