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Shepard Niles Cranes

Ordered For Offshore

Nuclear Power Plants

Shepard Niles cranes ranging from 10 to 40 tons in capacity will be utilized for building the nation's first floating nuclear power plant construction facili- ties. The crane order was awarded to Shepard Niles Crane & Hoist

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Corporation, subsidiary of Vul- can, Inc. of Montour Falls, N.Y., by Offshore Power Systems, a joint venture of Westinghouse

Electric Corp. and Tenneco, Inc.

Spans for the Shepard Niles cranes range from 26 feet to 102 feet. Seven of the cranes are floor operated, two are cab/floor operated, and one is radio con- trolled for Class D high-perform- ance service. t

All 10 cranes will be installed at Offshore Power Systems' giant shipyard-like manufacturing fa- cility in Jacksonville, Fla., where the PMNPPs (Platform Mounted

Nuclear Power-Plants) will be constructed on a unique "assem- bly-line" basis. The 140,000-ton plants will be completed at a pro- posed rate of four per year, with production expected to begin in mid-1975. Upon completion, the units will be towed to predeter- mined ocean sites about three miles offshore from major U.S. cities. Electric power produced by the nuclear plants will be transmitted to shore by under- water cables.

Sale of the cranes to Offshore

Power Systems was handled by

Shepard Niles's Florida agent,

Southern Overhead Systems. The total order exceeds $700,000.

United States Lines

Names Robert Splan

To West Coast Post & >tN.

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Robert H. Splan

Robert H. Splan has been named West Coast Division sales manager for United States Lines, it was announced by James J.

Carey, vice president-West Coast

Division.

Mr. Splan was manager of spe- cial accounts for Sea-Land Serv- ice, Inc. and had a number of previous assignments for that company, including California sales manager for the Far East

Division and sales management positions in Denver and Charles- ton areas, serving European routes.

He is a graduate of San Jose

State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial management. He has lived with his family in Berkeley Heights,

N.J., but will be relocating to the

West Coast. The division head- quarters is in Oakland, Calif.

United States Lines operates an all-modern fleet of 37 vessels serving various areas of the world. Sixteen high-speed high- capacity containerships maintain the 15,000-mile Tri-Continent

Service between Europe, the East and West Coasts of the United

States, Hawaii, Guam and the

Far East, and seven feeder ves- sels transport cargoes to ports which are not on the primary trade routes. The company also has 14 fast Challenger-class gen- eral cargo vessels engaged in commercial and chartered serv- ices in the trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific areas.

The Impossible Took Us A Little Longer

Design and build nine automatic burner-control systems. Install and put them in operation while underway, in each of nine ships of the National Bulk Carriers' fleet—with no disruption of their con- tracted two-week turnaround schedule between Venezuela and steel plants in the Philadelphia area.

It meant intelligent planning. It meant building each system with zero defects. It meant marshalling of materials down to the last deck-pad—and seeing them aboard each ship on schedule. It meant delivery of all systems on time. It meant a Chas. Lowe Co. man aboard for supervision, tune-up, instruction of ships' personnel.

It also meant unmanned fire-rooms, and a payout in less than two years. [TZIZ ^

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