“SPEED” PROPELLERS
SETS FOR HTE QUEEN AIARY SO rill A.MI'TON. Dec. 24. When the Qnei n Alary begins her L'32. (.(!;). six-week overhaul in the King (lertrge V Graving Dock at Soiitliainpfou she will be fitted with two sets ef tiiree-bladed propellers. 'These have been designed purely to increase her speed. For two years experiments were made in various types of fourbladbd propellers until vibration was eliminated. The French liner Xonnaudie, the Queen Alary’s rival, has also found that fo'iir-bladed propellers mean the end of viliration. She used tlire\‘blatled propt'llers until she captured the Blue Riband of the Atlantic. Then she changed to four blades. Cunard White Star, though still sticking to their policy of “no record breaking,” expect that the new propellers will increase the Queen Alary’s speed.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 11, 16 March 1938, Page 3
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128“SPEED” PROPELLERS Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 11, 16 March 1938, Page 3
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