One of the 2,170 passengers aboard the record breaking Normandie which arrived in New York yesterday, was Andre Levy, Director General of the Penhoet shipyards that built the new French liner.
M. Levy was making his second visit to the United States on the 1,029-foot liner that completed her maiden voyage across the Atlantic with an average speed for the crossing of 29.68 knots.
The time from Southampton to Ambrose Lightship was given officially as 107 hours and 33 minutes, one hour less than four and a half days. Mr. Levy’s previous trip to this country was at the time of the inaugural trip of the Ile de France, another ship built by his firm.
Mr. Levy, who will return on the Normandie Friday, doesn’t think that another liner such as the Normandie will soon be built. “There isn’t room,” he told an interviewer, “for many boats of this size.” But with an evident pride, he continued: “The Normandie, however, will be a success. It is already a success.”
Fifty-seven years old, Mr. Levy has devoted a lifetime to shipbuilding. He has been connected with the shipyards that built the Normandie for the past twenty-five years. Previous to that he was an engineer in the French Navy. He now holds the rank of engineer-in-
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