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Deck Fittings by Nabrico Nashville Bridge Company has pioneered in the water transport industry for fifty years. In that time, many of their innovations have become standard equipment on the rivers. For example, the Nabrico 40-ton winch, with 20 times faster take up than a ratchet, is available in a broad range of power options... manual, electric, hydraulic or air. It's made in true right and left hand arrangements. The Nabrico flush hatch cover has no projections to foul lines or trip deck hands. It secures watertight without tools and is approved by American Bureau of Shipping. In addition, Nabrico builds hose cranes, locking pins and sockets, bitts, chocks, kevels and bow steering units. Write for complete catalog and price list of Nabrico deck fittings and hardware. Nashville, Tennessee Otfwr profit-proven products Include: ? Deck Hardware ? Hose Cranes ? 40-Ton Winch ? Bow Steering Units ? Flush Mounted-Watertight Hatches EAST COAST REPRESENTATIVE: Smith-Meeker Engineering Co.. 157 Chambers St., New York Ci* Convenience and Economy A COMPLETE AMERICAN SHIP REPAIR SERVICE IDEALLY LOCATED for voyage or annual repairs enroute. Tanker work a specially. ? 1OOO ft. concrete outfitting pier ? 691' reinforced concrete graving dock ? Floating drydock ? Four mobile cranes ? Foundry ? Design division ? Complete machine ? pattern ? boiler-plate ? electrical ? fabricating shops ? New 2000 ton steel floating drydock Plus ? all the modern port facilities of San Juan, Puerto Rico. PUERTO RICO DRYDOCK & MARINE TERMINALS, INC. SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00903 P.O. BOX 2209 ? TELEPHONE 723-6010 ? 723-0769 ? CABLE ADDRESS "DRYDOCK" Ralph Medros Appointed Assistant General Manager By General Dynamics-Quincy I Jf Sri? fL / 4, m ..A . / Robert E. McMahon Ralph Medros, formerly director of materials and procurement, was named recently to the newly created position of assistant general manager of the Quincy division of General Dynamics Corp. General manager Robert V. Laney, to whom Mr. Medros will report, announced the appoint-ment. Reporting to Mr. Medros will be Lewis Em-merich, manager of manufacturing; Samuel B. Winram, manager of planning and control; Charles J. Palmer, director of engineering and Robert E. McMahon, newly appointed director of materials and procurement. In a division notice, Mr. Laney said "The establishment of the assistant general manager and the appointment of Mr. Medros will pro-vide the Quincy division additional concentra-tion and capacity to achieve our basic business goals while enabling me to devote more at-tention to the DX program and other duties of my office." Mr. Medros was corporate director of pur-chasing and traffic when he transferred to the Quincy division in May 1968. He joined General Dynamics in 1967, after 27 years with General Electric, with whom he held executive posts in industrial purchasing, traffic, material control and manufacturing. Educated at Northeastern University, major-ing in industrial management, Mr. Medros furthered his studies with several advanced management courses. Mr. McMahon joined General Dynamics in May 1968, after 17 years with General Elec-tric's jet engine facilities in Evandale, Ohio. He began as a production clerk and was a production control supervisor and assembly foreman before moving into the materials or-ganization in 1957. He was manager of pur-chasing contracts administration at the time he left the company. Mr. McMahon graduated from Xavier Uni-versity, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1950 and earned his MBA there in 1958. Baldt Anchor, Chain & Forge Now A Division Of Baldt Corp. Baldt Anchor, Chain & Forge, of Chester, Pa., formerly a division of the Universal Ma-rion Corporation, became a division of the Baldt Corporation effective December 1968, it was announced by E. J. McGuiness, managing director for the division. The change will not affect the personnel or operating management of the Chester-based firm. The Baldt Corpora-tion is a Delaware corporation, dating from 1965, while the anchor and chain division dates from 1900. Baldt Anchor, Chain & Forge, with its main plant and headquarters at 6th and Butler Streets, in Chester, Pa., is believed to be the world's largest manufacturer and supplier of marine anchors and anchor chain. It offers worldwide service from Chester, Pa.; Fields-boro, N.J.; New Orleans, La.; San Francisco, Calif.; Houston, Texas; Sweden, Germany and Japan. Ralph Medros