QUEEN MARY’S RUN
COMPANY NOT CLAIMING BLUE RIBAND DOES NOT RECOGNISE IT (Recd This Day, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. . A Cunard official says the Queen Mary’s record was all in the day’s work, and the liner was not out for record-breaking. The Cunard Company is not claiming the blue riband, as it does not recognise it. . " ; ’ Newspapers point out that the blue riband depends upon the average speed, in which the Normandie so far is faster, averaging 31.2 knots in an eastward run last year.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1938, Page 6
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86QUEEN MARY’S RUN Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1938, Page 6
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