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Reco Crane Promotes

Hardin—Literature Offered

Mr. Hardin, a veteran sales man- ager of the Xerox Corporation, joined Reco three years ago as as- sistant offshore operations man- ager.

Reco, with branches in Baton

Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles, and corporate headquarters in New Or- leans, is expanding their sales force to promote sales of the Link Belt product line, and their own Reco hydraulic box boom marine cranes.

Reco Marine Crane, a subsidiary of

Reco Crane Company, manufac- tures hydraulic cranes for the off- shore oil and marine industry.

For further information and liter- ature on Reco Crane Company and their products and services,

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Sales And Marketing

Functions Realigned

At TECO Transport

Following the recent resignation of Thomas G. Hoback as director of marketing for TECO Transport &

Trade Corporation of Tampa, there has been a realignment of sales, traffic, and marketing duties.

D. Bryan Bashore has been ap- pointed director-sales and market- ing, Peter S. Gibbons is now man- ager-sales and traffic, and James

R. Turner has been named man- ager-marketing.

Raytheon Service Co.

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Division Of M.A.N. Formed

Into New Subsidiary—

MAN Gutehoffnungshutte

M.A.N. Maschinenfabrik Augs- burg-Nurnberg, West Germany, has announced that M.A.N.'s Machin- ery, Plant and Systems Division, with works at Gustavsburg, Nurn- berg, and Oberlhausen-Sterkrade, will be segregated from M.A.N. The new company, named MAN Gute- hoffnungshutte GmbH, is to be reg- istered at Oberhausen as a legally independent 100 percent subsidiary of M.A.N. There will be a direct control and profit transfer agree- ment with the parent company.

This segregation will not entail any changes in business relations.

MAN Gutehoffnungshutte GmbH will enter into and honor all con- tracts, agreements and other under- standings originally signed with the former M.A.N. Machinery, Plant and Systems Division.

The telephone and telex numbers, as well as official addresses will also remain the same.

For more information,

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Metropolitan Offers New

Vanstone Flanged Fittings —Literature Available

Metropolitan Master Machinists, the Manufacturing Division of Met- ropolitan Plumbing Supply Corpo- ration, has introduced a new line of

Vanstone flanged fittings.

According to the manufacturer, the company has doubled its ma- chine shop capacity and they are diversifying their line to include all types of regular and special valves and fittings, in various sizes and metals.

Metropolitan's new swivel adjust- able Vanstone flanged fittings are offered in sizes 2 to 24 inches, in standard and extra-heavy carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum, cop- per bronze, carpenter alloy 20 and monel. Regular and specialty fit- tings, elbows, tees, crosses, reducers, lateral Ys, true Ys, spool pieces, stub ends, and adapters are also available in straight and reducing sizes.

For further information and free detailed literature on Metropolitan

Master Machinists and their prod- ucts,

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Ingram Barge Purchases

Great Rivers Marine

Ingram Barge Company, Nash- ville, Tenn., purchased all of Great

Rivers Marine Services, according to a recent company newsletter. In- gram had previously been a 50-per- cent partner with an individual.

Great Rivers, which serves as a valuable midstream fuel facility for

Custom Fuel to serve the river in- dustry, is an important staging and fleeting area for Ingram Barge.

In addition to in-house fleeting, minor barge repairs, fueling and other fleeting services, the company provides an important commercial fleeting facility which has developed a reputation for prompt, efficient and economical service to the inland river industry.

Newport News Awarded $3-Million Contract

For Planning Yard Services

Newport News Shipbuilding and

Drydock Company, Newport News,

Va., is being awarded a $3,012,236 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for reactor planning yard services.

Work will be performed in Newport

News and is expected to be com- pleted in September 1986. The Nav- al Sea Systems Command, Wash- ington, D.C., is the contracting ac- tivity (N00024-85-C-4014).

Meyer Retires As Deputy

Commander At NAVSEA

Adm. Wayne E. Meyer

Rear Adm. Wayne E. Meyer, a leader in the development of the

U.S. Navy's revolutionary Aegis weapons system, retired recently af- ter 42 years of Naval service. His last assignment was a deputy com- mander for weapons and combat systems at the Naval Sea Systems

Command.

His accomplishments in the de- velopment of Aegis were recognized in 1985 by the Navy League of the

United States, which awarded him the Rear Adm. William S. Parsons

Award for Scientific and Technical

Progress. He was cited for his deter- mined and dedicated leadership re- sulting in the development and de- ployment of the Aegis weapons sys- tems aboard Ticonderoga Class cruisers.

Adm. Meyer began his career as an apprentice seaman, and was com- missioned ensign in the Naval Re- serve in 1946. He transferred to the regular Navy in 1948. His assign- ments have taken him to sea in the radar picket destroyer USS Good- rich, light cruiser USS Springfield, destroyer tender USS Sierra, radar picket escort ship USS Strickland, and guided-missile light cruiser

USS Galveston. He has also had numerous key shore assignments.

He was selected for flag rank in

January 1975 and assumed duties as project manager, Aegis shipbuild- ing. He assumed his final assign- ment at NAVSEA in September 1983.

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Reco Crane Company of New Or- leans, La., announced the promo- tion of Gary Hardin to general sales manager.

Gary Hardin