LUXURY LINERS
ENTERPRISE OF CANADIAN COMPANY. TORONTO, Canada. The Canadian Pacific Steamships will order five new luxury liners from British shipyards during the next three years at a cost of 55,000,000 dollars if world conditions remain favourable, says a cable from Southampton, England, carried by the Canadian Press, the leading news gathering and distributing service in the Dominion. The cable quotes Sir Edward Beatty, chairman and president of the company, as saying on his arrival from Canada on the Empress of Britain that he hoped to place immediately an order for two vessels of 25,000 tons with a speed of 23 knots an hour, for the Canadian-Australian service. “I think next year we shall, providing world conditions remain favourable, place orders for two new large luxury liners for our Pacific service to replace the Empress of Russia and the Empress of Asia, which were built in 1913,” Sir Edward is quoted as saying. “Later in 1940 we shall probably build a sister ship to the Empress of Britain which proved to be so suitable and so successful on the Atlan-1 tic. The new Empress would be quite as big and probably faster than the present Empress,” he added.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1938, Page 7
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198LUXURY LINERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1938, Page 7
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