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Babcock & Wilcox Forms

New Washington Office

The Babcock & Wilcox Company has formed a corporate-level Washington, D.C. office, re- placing the existing Washington office of the company's Power Generation Division.

R. H. Harrison, vice-president, has been named to direct the new function. He will re- port directly to B&W President George G.

Zipf.

All activity between the federal government and the company, its divisions and subsidiaries will be coordinated through the office. Service to Washington news media in addition to leg- islative and executive branch relations is in- cluded in its broad public affairs responsibili- ty. Sales functions previously handled by the

Washington office will be assumed by the company's divisions and subsidiaries.

Mr. Harrison joined B&W in 1961 following his retirement as an Army brigadier general.

He directed B&W's Atomic Energy Division until 1968 when he joined the president's staff in New York. Mr. Harrison's Army career in- cluded service in Korea and the European theatre of World War II. His last military duty was deputy chief of the Defense Atomic

Support Agency and chief of the Joint Atomic

Information Exchange Group.

Mangone Building Offshore

Oil-Well Supply Boat

Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc., of Hous- ton, Texas, has awarded a contract to Man- gone Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas, for the construction of a 600-dwt offshore, oil- well supply boat. Designated Hull No. 94, and to be powered with 600-total-bhp diesels, the vessel will have the following dimensions: 156 feet 6 inches in length, 36 feet in beam, 15 feet in depth, and will be of 300 gt.

Container Feeder Service

Slated For Sacramento

A container-shipping feeder service to con- nect the inland port of Sacramento, Calif, with container terminals on San Francisco Bay has been announced by Sacramento port director

Melvin Shore. The new service will start early next year.

Mr. Shore estimates that / 5 percent of the 1968 total cargo tonnage of 280,000 tons for

Sacramento is containerizable. He is planning on providing a weekly sailing by leased barges between the two ports, located 85 miles apart.

Sacramento has a large, paved port area suitable for container storage. The port will buy only the necessary bridles for container handling to be used with existing gantry cranes.

Mr. Shore feels that this type of feeder serv- ice will be applicable to many ports.

New Consortium Buys

York Containers

Containers valued at more than $120,000 are to be supplied to the new shipping consortium,

Dart Containerline, by York Trailer Company

Ltd., Corby, Northants, England. The units ordered are 20-foot open-top all-steel I.S.O. containers, designed to comply with T.I.R. regulations and used mainly for shipping heavy, crane-loaded machinery.

This is one of the first container orders for the consortium, which has been formed by

Bristol City Line (U.K.), Compagnie Mari- time Beige (Belgium) and Clarke Traffic

Services (Canada). It was placed on their be- half by Swan Hunter, who is currently build- ing two "super" containerships for the con- sortium. The containers will be built at York

Trailer's new container plant at Northallerton,

Yorkshire.

Lorain Electronics

Forms Service Division

For Inland Waterways

Lorain Electronics Corporation has an- nounced the formation of a new service for workboat operators and shipbuilders on the inland waterways and Great Lakes. A separate engineering division has been organized to handle Decca ISIS automation equipment;

Lake Shore Electric automatic generator transfer and switch gear; and a complete line of electric steering systems for workboats.

Lorain will provide complete sales, engineer- ing, and field service requirements for these products. The warranties of all three com- panies will back-up product quality and serv- ice.

Dudley Miller will head up the field service responsibilities for Lorain, with headquarters, administrative and engineering under the di- rection of R. E. Scatterday.

For some time it has been recognized that the increase in use of electronic tools for tow- boats requires that they be applied and main- tained under one engineering responsibility.

Lorain field service engineers throughout the inland waterways will be supplied with oper- ational spare parts for all of this equipment and factory-trained for efficient 24-hour service on the vessels. Lorain has served the marine industry since 1933.

Any further information can be secured by writing or calling Lorain Electronics Corpora- tion, Marine Automation Division, 2307 Lea- vitt Road, Lorain, Ohio 44052, area code 216 282-6116.

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