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on July 1978Alco Power Inc., Auburn, N.Y., is offering a new four-color, 20- page brochure which describes their line of POWER BOSS diesel engines. The brochure, "The Alco POWER BOSS," details the company's five basic 6, 8, 12, 16 and 18- cylinder engines in a complete range of configurations. These ar
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on July 1978Kobelt has introduced another marine control head to their line of die-cast brass propulsion controls. The Model 2545, pneumatic, propulsion control head is fitted with twin levers for a twinengined vessel. Each lever controls both clutch and throttle on one engine. Also available is a Mode
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on July 1978In a reorganization of the Marketing Department of Butterworth Systems Inc., Florham Park, N.J., Kenneth J. Hatley has been appointed manager, Tank Cleaning Systems, and Thomas A. Grieb has been appointed sales manager. The reorganization was sparked by the company's introduction of the light
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on July 1978The NL Speed Log, which offers accurate and reliable speed and distance information to the vessel operator, is described in new literature offered by Simrad, Inc. Ideal as the speed sensor for integrated NAV Systems, the NL outputs in BCD and / or analog format speed, distance, tracking mod
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on July 1978A new 20-page, fully illustrated catalog which describes in detail propellers and related items for trawlers, towboats, seagoing and harbor tugboats, etc., has been published by Coolidge Propellers, Michigan Wheel Division, Dana Corporation, Seattle, Wash. In addition to illustrating, descri
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on July 1978G.W. James Jr., president, T.L. James & Co., Inc., Ruston, La., has announced that his firm is in the process of forming a joint venture with Hollandshe Aanneming Maatshappij BV (HAM), Rijwijk, the Netherlands, for the purpose of entering the seagoing hopper dredging business. The venture p
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on July 1978James L. Ketelsen, 47 years old, has been elected chairman and chief executive officer of Tenneco Inc. He will continue as president, a post he attained last year. He succeeds Wilton E. Scott, 65, who will retire from Tenneco management but remain on the board. Mr. Ketelsen joined a Tenneco
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- Bergeron Marine Begins Operations page: 38
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on July 1978Bergeron Marine, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Bergeron Industries, Inc., has begun production at the company's new shipyard facility. The shipyard occupies a 40-acre site at the Port Bienville Industrial Park near Pearlington, Miss., and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. Commenting on the
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on July 1978Bailey Refrigeration Co., Inc. of Brooklyn, N.Y., has engineered and installed refrigeration and heating systems aboard a modified SEABEE hopper barge for Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. This 971/o-foot-long by 35-footwide barge has two complete and separate systems, one at either end. Each conditio
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on July 1978L. (Larry) Williams, manager of Caterpillar Tractor Co., Industrial Division Marketing Department since 1969, has been named manager of a newly expanded worldwide engine marketing organization which includes all sales, sales development, and service functions. Mr. Williams joined Caterpillar
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on July 1978Sidney D. Campbell, chairman of the board of Foss Launch & Tug Co., a division of Dillingham Maritime, has been chosen 1978 Maritime Man of the Year by the Puget Sound Maritime Press Association. The award was presented May 18 at the annual National Maritime Day Banquet, held at the Seattl
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on July 1978George Fenton has recently joined the Washington, D.C., division of Gibbs & Cox, Inc., in the capacity of senior staff engineer. Mr. Fenton started his shipbuilding career in 1951, when he enrolled in the Apprentice School of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. Upon completi
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on July 1978Stow Manufacturing Co. has announced a new breakthrough in torque protection for nuclear power and other service valves. This new clutch has no pressure plates or other friction devices to go out of calibration or tolerance. It utilizes a unique series of ball and spring detents to achieve p
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on July 1978Red Fox Industries, New Iberia, La., has brought in three men to head its regional sewage treatment marketing efforts, according to Robert C. Fox. All three men have extensive backgrounds in marketing sewage treatment or related devices. Jean F. Boulin will manage Red Fox's East Coast Regio
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on July 1978Dravo Corporation has announced the appointments of Jack Hird as Eastern sales manager, marine, and Richard Farringer as contract manager of marine repair for its Engineering Works Division. Mr. Hird, formerly manager of marine repair, joined Dravo in 1939. He has 30 years' experience in m
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on July 1978Houston Natural Gas Corporation (HNG), Houston, Texas, has announced that the Marine Services Division of its wholly owned subsidiary Pott Industries Inc. of St. Louis, Mo., had purchased the remaining 50 percent interest in a previously held joint venture company, Gulf International Marine C
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on July 1978Northwest Marine Iron Works of Portland, Ore., has designed a unique propeller lifting carriage which results in significantly less man-hours in the installation of skewed propellers. Initial test for the carriage, which was built in conjunction with the Port of Portland, came during a recent
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- Great Lakes/Great Rivers Section Hears Three Technical Papers At Spring Meeting In Marinette page: 57
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on July 1978The spring meeting of the Great Lakes and Great Rivers Section, The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, was held at the Holiday Inn in Marinette, Wis., on May 25, 1978, with about 110 registered members and guests. The technical session, following the morning business meeting, d
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on July 1978Frank W. Amason has joined Worthington Pump Inc. as general manager of the company's Taneytown, Md., pump manufacturing plant. Mr. Amason was previously vice president, operations of the Glendora, Calif., plant of Johnston Pump. Prior to joining Johnston in 1973, he had been with another E
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on July 1978Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Chester, Pa. 19013, has made four appointments to its Corporate Science and Technology Division. The company named Gerald Swensson, manager-Machinery Sciences, Thomas Krehnbrink, manager-Hull Sciences, Richard Bicicchi, manager-Material Sciences, and Larry