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$5-Million-Plus Contracts

Awarded To Louis Allis

Contracts exceeding $5 million for eight more auxiliary propul- sion systems for the U.S. Navy's new guided missile frigates, the

FFG-7 class, have been awarded to Louis Allis Division of Litton

Industries.

The Milwaukee, Wis.-based manufacturer of special motors said three systems are to be de- livered to Bath Iron Works, Bath,

Maine; three to Todd Pacific in

San Pedro, Calif., and two to Todd

Pacific in Seattle, Wash. Deliver- ies will begin in October 1980.

George K. Geiger Joins

Bay Shipbuilding Corp.

Bay Shipbuilding Corporation,

Sturgeon Bay, Wis., has an- nounced that George K. Geiger will assume the position of vice president and general manager and will report directly to A.J.

Zuehlke, president.

George K. Geiger

Mr. Geiger was employed by

Bethlehem Steel Corporation in 1970. He was a member of a team that organized and staffed the

Bethlehem yard in the Republic of Singapore, Malaysia, Once the shipyard was in operation, Mr.

Geiger was in charge of produc- tion operations, equipment pro- curement, and operational budg- ets. In 1965, he returned to the

United States where he was as- signed as assistant to the general manager at the Key Highway ship repair yard.

In 1966, Mr. Geiger was em- ployed by Litton Industries and was first assigned to the Beverly

Hills, Calif. FDL program partic- ipating in the development of the new Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard.

In 1967, he became president and general manager of Erie Marine in Erie, Pa. There, Mr. Geiger established a new shipyard and shipbuilding company at which the first 1,000-foot Great Lakes bulk carrier, the M/V Stewart

J. Cort, was built for Bethlehem

Steel. He has also held key posi- tions at Todd Shipyards at Los

Angeles, and Puget Sound Naval

Shipyard in Washington.

Delaval Will Test Use

Of Coal-Derived Fuel

In a new phase of the Govern- ment's multi-billion-dollar syn- thetic fuels program, the Depart- ment of Energy has awarded

Transamerica Delaval Inc. a con- tract to test the performance characteristics of coal-derived liq- uid in operating heavy-duty diesel engines.

Details of the $475,000, 16- month program were announced by Douglas Martini, vice president and general manager of Trans- america Delaval's Engine and

Compressor Division, which man- ufactures diesel engines in the 3,000 to 13,500-bhp range at its

Oakland, Calif., plant. The divi- sion will use its 3,656-bhp DSR- 46 engine in the DOE tests.

Mr. Martini said the test engine contains the same basic technol- ogy as the other medium-speed diesel built by Transamerica De- laval for ship propulsion and for generating electrical power. The

DSR-46 is also easily modifiable for the tests, and economical in terms of fuel consumption per test hour.

According to the Department of Energy, the feasibility studies "anticipate the time when syn- thetic fuels from coal could pro- vide substantial amounts of en- ergy in the U.S." In addition to testing with synthetic fuel from coal, the program is expected to include a later phase using shale oil.

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