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World-Wide Awards 400,000-Dwt Tanker

Contract To Hitachi

Y.K. Pao, governing director of

World-Wide (Shipping) Ltd., has announced that a contract for the con- struction of a giant oil carrier has been completed with Hitachi Ship- building Company in Japan.

Mr. Pao stated that the 400,000- dwt tanker, when it is delivered in about four years, will become the big- gest ship in one of the world's biggest independently owned ocean fleets. He also noted that this newest oil carrier will be owned partially by Eastern

Asia Navigation Co., Ltd., one of the fleet companies within the World-

Wide Group, whose shares are quoted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Altogether, the World-Wide enter- prise has some 40 supersize tankers on order.

Dover/Norris Purchases

Three Product Lines

From Crall Products

GE Turbines To Power

Navy Patrol Frigate

Bath Iron Works has selected the

GE LM2500 marine gas turbine to power the new U.S. Navy Patrol

Frigate, according to an announce- ment made by GE's Marine & Indus- trial Department in Evendale, Ohio.

Two LM2500 propulsion modules will propel the 3,400-ton Patrol Fri- gate, now starting development at

Bath. Each propulsion module devel- ops 20,500 horsepower. The horse- power from the two modules will go through a combining reduction gear to drive a controlled and reversible pitch propeller.

An LM2500 module consists of the gas turbine, an acoustic enclosure, sound and shock-isolating mounts, and a lube oil storage and condition- ing module.

Prior to construction of the lead

Patrol Frigate, Bath will assemble a land-based test installation at the

Naval Ship Engineering Center in

Philadelphia, Pa. The installation will include two LM2500 modules, reduc- tion gears and control system.

GE's Marine & Industrial Depart- ment is also supplying LM2500 mod- ules for the DD963-class destroyers for the U.S. Navy, and LM2500 en- gines for the NATO/U.S. Navy

PHM Patrol Hydrofoil.

E.L. Bechtold (left), vice president of Gen- eral Products and Pumps Group, discusses new products with Norris Division president

G. W. Davidson.

G.W. Davidson, president of

Tulsa, Okla.-based Norris Division of Dover Corporation, has an- nounced the acquisition of three product lines from Crall Products,

Inc. of Pampa, Texas. The product lines acquired, including -the finish- ed goods inventory, all tooling and patent rights, are sleeve couplings, pipe repair clamps, and polished rod clamps.

Norris, a division of Dover Cor- poration, is a manufacturer and marketer of sucker rods, butterfly and control valves, pumps and fit- tings for oil, gas, marine and in- dustrial application.

Norris employs 700 people in

Tulsa and has plants in Houston,

Texas, and Edmonton, Canada, and licensees in Europe and Australia.

There will be no interruption of delivery, according to E.L. (Ed)

Bechtold, vice president of the

General Products and Pumps

Group, and the transition is expect- ed to be complete 'by next Febru- ary 1. All manufacturing will be done in Tulsa.

D.P. (Paul) Hagaman, vice president-sales, said Norris will continue to serve Crall users as well as new customers through ex- isting Norris oil field distribution and will explore expansion of new markets.

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