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Whirleys / Marine Post Cranes / Hoists /

Derricks / Anchor-Pulling Winches /

Shearlegs / Overhead Cranes / Gantry Cranes

Cummins Engine Co.

Names George Hollins

Alcoa Subsidiary

Ocean Search Inc.

Names Scholley VP

Ocean Search, Inc., Washing- ton, D.C., has named George G.

Scholley vice president, with re- sponsibility for diversifying com- pany operations.

Ocean Search, Inc., a Washing- ton-'based subsidiary of Aluminum

Company of America, owns and operates Alcoa Seaprolbe—a deep- ocean search and recovery vessel —and has a worldwide salvage con- tract with the U.S. Navy.

Mr. Scholley goes to Washing- ton from Pittsburgh, where he has been manager of Alcoa's advanced projects division.

He joined Alcoa in 1953, after graduation from Duke University, and has 'had various sales assign- ments.

He also is a director of Ocean

Search, Inc. and is a member of the Marine Technology Society,

Society of 'Small 'Craft Designers and The Society of Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers.

George Hollins

George Hollins, formerly execu- tive director-service, has been named head of a new Cummins

Engine Company department cre- ated to give the customer better representation within the firm by consolidating several quality assur- ance and service functions. His new title, effective immediately, is vice president-product perform- ance.

A graduate of Northwestern Uni- versity in mechanical engineering,

Mr. Hollins originally joined Cum- mins in 1946. For 20 years, he worked in a variety of design and engineering positions for the world's largest independent pro- ducer of heavy-duty diesel engines.

He was director-engineering serv- ices when he left Cummins in 1966 to become manager-product engi- neering of the Allis Chalmers En- gine Division, where he was sub- sequently promoted to general manager. In February 1972, he re- turned to Cummins in Columbus,

Ind., as executive director-service.

Cummins's new product per- formance department incorporates advanced quality engineering, cer- tification testing, tech service, cus- tomer relations, and warranty and service practices.

Virginia Port Authority

Appoints Willard Forbes

The Virginia Port Authority an- nounced that Willard G. Forbes, vice president of Associated Naval

Architects Inc. of Portsmouth, has been appointed by Governor Lin- wood Holton to the authority's board of commissioners. The ap- pointment is for a three-year term ending June 30, 1976. He can be reappointed for a six-year term.

Union Mechling Moves

N.O. Sales Office

Union Mechling Corporation has announced that its New Orleans,

La., sales office is now located in

Suite 802 of the International

Trade Mart.

Staffing the office will be Peter

M. Mitchell Jr., Southern sales manager; Robert D. Wilson, as- sistant manager-sales, and James

J. McGinnis, sales representative.

Thomas Stahl and Harry Baker will be in charge of operations and dispatching.

Union Mechling, a subsidiary of

Dravo (Corporation, Pittsburgh,

Pa., provides barge transportation services on the Mississippi River

System and Gulf Intracoastal Wa- terway and to Tampa, Fla.

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