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Speer To LNG Post

At Brown & Root's

Allied Industries Div.

Grant W. Speer, formerly gen- eral manager of General Dynamics

Corporation's commercial products division in San Antonio, Texas, has •assumed the position of product manager-LNG for Allied Indus- tries' liquefied natural gas program at Houston, Texas.

Mr. Speer brings to his new posi- tion more 'than 20 years of experi- ence in operating and management fields. In addition to his General

Dynamics post, Mr. Speer has served as assistant director of op- erations for Twin Industries Corp. in Buffalo, N.Y., and he held super- visory and operating positions with

Lockheed Propulsion Company for 11 years. His experience includes three years of employment with

Northrop Aircraft of Hawthorne,

Calif., and four years of aerody- namics work while attending col- lege.

A native of San Bernardino,

Calif., Mr. Speer holds the bache- lor's degree in aeronautical engi- neering from the University of

California at Los Angeles. He has also completed special business training courses at the University of Southern California's graduate school of business.

Allied Industries, a division of

Brown & Root, Inc., a Halliburton

Company, is headquartered in

Houston. The company fabricated the cargo tanks for the United

States' first oceangoing LNG barge, and two license agreements have strengthened the firm's LNG capabilities.

Allied's background in special- ized metals fabrication recently re- sulted in the signing of an agree- ment with TEAL Cryogenics, Inc., whereby Allied will manufacture spool-wound cryogenic heat ex- changers of the French TEAL de- sign in the United States. The heat exchanger is the heart of the lique- faction process, and exchangers of the TEAL design have been in- stalled in base-load plants through- out the world.

The company has also signed a license agreement with Technigaz of Paris, France, for fabrication in the United States of cargo tanks to be installed in oceangoing LNG tankers. These tanks represent about 20 percent of the capital in- vestment required of an LNG tank- er.

Allied was organized in 1944. The company specializes in sophisticat- ed plate and vessel fabrication for the petrochemical and other indus- tries. In addition, the company's

Flo-Tronics Division offers design and installation of total air-convey- ing systems, blenders, and com- ponent equipment for the petro- chemical and other industries.

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American Manufacturing Com- pany, Inc. of Brooklyn, N.Y., has named Joseph A. Berthelot as

Southern territory manager. This is a newly created post resulting from the combination of Southeast and New Orleans territories, and including North and South Caro- lina, Georgia, Florida, southern

Alabama, southern Mississippi and

Louisiana.

Mr. Berthelot is a native of New

Orleans and a member of The Pro- peller Club of that port. He joined

American in 1958 as a sales rep- resentative and now headquarters at 1523 St. Ferdinand Street, New

Orleans, where the company main- tains one Of the largest stocks of rope in the Gulf area.

Neil Marquette, based in Jack- sonville, will continue to represent

American in the Southeast, report- ing to the New Orleans office where Walter F. Wellman is man- ager.

American Mfg. Co.

Names Joseph Berthelot

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