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Western Gear Corp.

Names Fred Boswell

To Gulf Marine Post

Fred Boswell

Fred Boswell, widely known in marine circles in the Gulf Coast area, has been appointed district sales manager for marine gears and other marine products in Western

Gear Corporation's Southwest re- gional sales organization, head- quartered at Houston, Texas.

Mr. Boswell will be responsible for sales of the company's products in the New Orleans and Mississippi riverbank areas. He will report to

Richard S. Hollyer, director of cor- porate marketing for the South- west region.

Formerly associated with Na- tional Marine Service and the Mo- bil Oil Company, Mr. Boswell is a graduate of the U.S. Maritime

Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., and holds licenses as third and second assistant engineer for ocean ves- sels.

Western 'Gear Corporation, with executive offices at Lynwood,

Calif., is active internationally in the design, engineering, manufac- ture, and installation of mechanical systems and subsystems, special- ized machinery and power trans- mission equipment for a variety of industries, including marine, aero- space, airport systems, petroleum, primary metals and graphic arts.

Southwest regional sales offices of the company are at Suite 400,

Two Greenway Plaza East, Hous- ton, Texas 77046.

Raymond To Construct

LNG Marine Terminal

Near Savannah, Ga.

Raymond International Inc., Hous- ton, Texas, was awarded two con- tracts totaling more than $3.3 million to install pile foundations for three concrete storage tanks and to con- struct an 1,800-foot-long bridge for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) marine terminal at Elba Island near Savan- nah, Ga. The client is Southern En- ergy Co.

Prior to the bridge construction award, the client contracted Raymond

Technical Facilities Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary based in New York, to perform feasibility studies and complete engineering design. Borings at the bridge site were performed by the Raymond Test Boring Depart- ment.

Raymond will drive approximately 1,700 Step-Taper piles for the storage tank foundations, and 54-inch-diame- ter prestressed concrete cylinder piles to support the bridge superstructure.

The prestressed piles are being manu- factured and delivered to the site by

Bayshore Concrete Products Corpo- ration based in Cape Charles, Va., of which Raymond is a part owner.

The bridge will span the south chan- nel of the Savannah River, with one terminal point at Elba Island and the other connecting with highways lead- ing to Savannah.

The bridge construction, on which work has already begun, is scheduled to be completed in 1974.

Flexible Shaft

Engineering Handbook

Available From Stow

Stow Manufacturing Co. has just published a 76-page Engineering

Handbook covering the latest up-to- date information on flexible shafting.

Engineers can learn all about how flexible shafting can reduce cost, save weight and simplify their design. This seventh edition gives complete infor- mation on the basics of flexible shaft- ing as well as helping the engineer design it into his drawings by giving him the complete specifications on core, casing and end fittings.

This handbook is divided into sec- tions giving complete details on the basic construction of a flexible shaft, standard flexshaft units, value engi- neered flexshaft and custom-built units.

For a free copy of this handbook, write Stow Manufacturing Co., 86

Bump Road, Binghamton, N.Y. 13902.

This announcement appears as a matter of record only. $20,700,000

The Western Company of North America (Bareboat Charterer)

The undersigned, initiated and arranged a 15 year leveraged lease financing for the semi-submersible drilling vessel "Western Pacesetter /" and also effected the private placement of that portion of the above-indicated cost representing the Ownership interest.

CONDREN, WALKER & Co.

Incorporated

August 31, 1973 New York, N. Y.

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