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Start. Conceived by the Cunard Line as the world's biggest ship, the keel of No. 534 was laid in February 1931, at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd., Clydebank. Her tonnage was 73,000, her cost $30,000,000. Eleven months after her keel was laid, work was suspended for lack of funds. For two years and four months No. 534 was an empty, half-finished hull. Then the Cunard and White Star Lines merged. The Government came to No. 534's rescue with a three-million-pound loan. Some 3,800 workmen went back...
...grimy little cottages of Clydebank, Scotland there was bunting last week. Policemen on the corners smiled right round the chin straps of their helmets. Down the cobbled street came the sharp squeal of bagpipes. Four hundred workmen, their tool bags slung over their shoulders, tramped behind the pipers and gaily sang "The Cunarder's restarting!" to the tune of "The Campbells are Coming." Through the gates of the John Brown Shipyard they went, and other workmen, busy on the 8,000-ton motorship for the New Zealand trade and several other ships, cheered them as they passed...
Notably absent and unmentioned at last week's ceremony was the heroine for whom Southampton's mighty new bed was made, the Cunard Line's unfinished 73,000-ton liner "No. 534." It lay last week in its Clydebank, Scotland yards, unfinished for lack of a Government subsidy. Designed to make 30 knots, cross the Atlantic in four days flat to beat the North German Lloyd's Bremen & Europa, "No. 534" last rang with hammers two years ago. But at a luncheon after the ceremony last week Cunard's plow-chinned Board Chairman Sir Percy...
This did not mean that the 3,000 British shipwrights thrown out of work at John Brown & Co.'s Clydebank yards fortnight ago when Cunard stopped construction went back to work last week. Having voted their determination, the Cunard Board had next to look for money. Said Sir Percy: "Patriotic offers of a public Joan will not be overlooked. . . . There are other possibilities...
Clyde workers, Cunard officials and shareholders were not the only ones who mourned No. 534's plight. In the House of Commons, Clydebank Laborites raged because the Government did not help keep their constituents at work. President Walter Runciman of the Board of Trade was as sorry as anyone, admitted that he had been informed that building would have to be stopped but that in discussions Cunard officials the question of direct Government assistance had never raised. "I fear if it had been," sadly he. "there would have been no hop this case.'' He did consider, however...