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Sperry Vickers Names

Robert H. Breeden

Robert H. Breeden

Sperry Vickers has announced 'the appointment of Robert H.

Breeden as an engineering manager at its Troy, Mich., Administrative and Engineering Center.

Mr. Breeden, a five-year Sperry

Vickers employee, will have pri- mary responsibilities for the design and development of hydraulic prod- ucts for marine applications.

A graduate of the University of

Virginia with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, and

John Hopkins University with a bachelor's degree in physics, Mr.

Breeden was previously a senior project engineer in Sperry Vickers marine engineering department.

Sea Containers Buys

New Containerships

Sea Containers Inc., a leading international leasing company for marine cargo containers, container cranes and containerships, will take delivery in late 1973 of two con- tainerships of new design to be built in the Far East. The an- nouncement was made by James

B. Sherwood, president, who in- dicated the ships would each be capable of carrying 196 containers of 20-foot length at a speed of 12 knots, and would be called "deck- ships." The vessels, which do not have batches, would offer very economical transportation of con- tainers over short sea routes, and will contain an on-board contain- er crane.

Mr. Sherwood also announced that a $192,000 arbitration award had been confirmed by a New York court against an affiliate of a major

U.S. ship line for failure to pay rentals on leased equipment. "Part of the award will be treat- ed as ordinary income for 1972,"

Mr. Sherwood said, "and our re- sults for calendar 1972 should be made public sometime during the week of March 19. "With all of the (recent concern about currency parity changes,"

Mr. Sherwood added, "I would like to make it clear that Sea Contain- ers should suffer no adverse effect, and in fact has just recently made a considerable profit from the re- turn of a German mark deposit on the cancellation of a new Tarros 302 ship which was being built in a German shipyard. A technical dif- ficulty developed with this particu- lar ship, 'but the order will most likely be replaced in the near term with a Far East shipbuilder.

General Dynamics

Electric Boat Div.

Names George Roos

George W. Roos has been named director of industrial relations and management engineering at the

Electric 'Boat Division of General

Dynamics, Groton, Conn. He re- placed D.C. Wilkens, who is retir- ing.

Francis W. McNally has been appointed manager of labor rela- tions and Donald Carlson manager of personnel and compensation.

Both will report to Mr. Roos.

Mr. Roos, who joined the divi- sion in 1957, had been director of management engineering since No- vember 1972. From 1968 to 1972, he wasimanager of change control. A 1953 graduate of Iona College in

New Rochelle, N.Y., Mr. Roos is a four-year Navy veteran.

Mr. McNally had been manager of wage and labor relations since 1969 at General Dynamics' 'Strom - berg-Carlson subsidiary in Roches- ter, N.Y. A 1961 graduate of Villa- nova University, he joined Strom- berg-Carlson in 1966.

Mr. Wilkens had been director of industrial relations at Electric

Boat since 1965. He was director of industrial relations at the com- pany's 'Convair Division in San

Diego, 'Calif, for 20 years before joining Electric Boat.

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