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Lufkin Promotes

Lyle Carpenter

Lyle Carpenter

Lufkin Industries, Lufkin, Tex- as, has announced the promotion of Lyle Carpenter to the position of assistant to the Machinery Di- vision sales manager.

With Lufkin since 1960, Mr. Car- penter started as a warehouseman in the Odessa office. He was then transferred to the Lufkin office in 1963.

Lufkin Industries' Machinery Di- vision manufactures oil field pump- ing units and industrial and marine gears.

Marine Index Bureau

Names AWO President

To Board Of Advisors

James R. Smith

James R. Smith, president, The

American Waterways Operators,

Inc. since February 27, 1973, has been appointed to the board of advisors of the Marine Index Bu- reau, Inc., according to the bureau's president, Bruno J. Augenti. For 35 years, the bureau has been the only commercial depository for data concerning personnel illness- es and injuries for the American maritime industry. Bureau mem- bership comprises all American- flag steamship owners and opera- tors on the deep seas, practically every operator on the Great Lakes and inland waterways, stevedores, shipyards, the U.'S. Navy's Mili- tary Seal'ift Command, the U.S.

Maritime Administration, and oth- ers whose employees may be 'de- scribed as "amphibious" in the off- shore oil industry and affiliated in- dustries. The chairman of the

MIB advisory board is Hubert F.

Carr, Esq., vice president, Moore-

McCormack Lines.

Mr. Smith was appointed Assist- ant Secretary of the Interior by

President Nixon in 1969. His re- sponsibilities included serving as alternate to the chairman of the

U.S. Water Resources Council and membership on the board of the

Electric Power Research Insti- tute. A native of Sioux Falls, S.D.,

Mr. Smith received his law degree from the University of South Da- kota. The AWO president has al- so served as vice president and general counsel of the Mississippi

Valley Association, now the Wa- ter Resources Congress. He is a member of the positions commit- tee of the National Propeller Club of the United States, and of the western rivers committee of the

American Bureau of Shipping.

IRD Mechanalysis

Opens Sales-Service

Center In Houston

IRD Mechanalysis, Inc., 6150

Huntley Road, Columbus, Ohio 43229, manufacturer of vibration and noise analyzers, vibration monitors and balancing machines, has announced the opening of a new Regional Sales-Service Center at 4127 Weslow, Suite 110, Hous- ton, Texas.

This facility, now in full opera- tion to serve industry throughout the Southwest, provides repair and calibration service for all IRD products, start-up service for IRD

Monitor installations, application engineering for vibration monitor systems and balancing machines, plant-wide maintenance procedures for noise/vibration control pro- gram—including baseline machin- ery signatures, and assistance in solving emergency vibration and balancing problems.

They couldn't stretch the hull, so we shrank the gearing.

The unusual hull design for this new roll-on roll-off ship really put the squeeze on its propulsion ma- chinery.

Two 9000 HP Pielstick diesel engines, made by

Crossley Premier Engines Ltd., and their gear re-

The 20,000-ton "RO-RO" Laurentian Forest, built by Port Weller Dry Docks Ltd., St. Catharines, Ontario, for Burnett Steamship Company, will carry newsprint to Europe and return with trucks and cars. ducers, had to fit into a pair of restricted pods.

And the gearing to reduce the engine output speed from 520 rpm to 110 rpm was specified as

Lloyd's Ice Class 1. This meant 25% higher rating — actually 11,250 HP — to withstand propeller shock loading from ice in the North Atlantic.

Conventional "soft gearing" would have re- quired a bull gear 50% greater in diameter — much, larger than the available space—or alternately a face-width so extreme that problems of deflection and end loading of teeth would have made the de- sign unsatisfactory.

The solution: Philadelphia Gear Reducers, with case-hardened and ground gearing. The bull gears were the biggest single helical hardened and ground marine gears ever made in this country.

But for this application, they were unusually com- pact; actually, 40% smaller than "soft" gears of the same capacity, because of the extra load trans- mission capability of hardened and ground gears.

Before you gear up for your next ship, let's get together and reduce the problems. Write Philadel- phia Gear Corporation, King of Prussia, Pa. 19406.

Or call (215) 265-3000. PHUDBPHIA GEAR

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