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Thomas Named President

Arthur Levy Boat Service

Ogden U. Thomas Jr.

Ogden U. Thomas Jr. has been named president of Arthur Levy

Boat Service, the petroleum work- boat subsidiary of Petrolane In- corporated.

He succeeds Arthur Levy Jr., who resigned last month to enter a private business venture. Mr.

Levy has been president and gen- eral manager since October 1974.

Mr. Thomas will be the third president since the workboat com- pany was founded in 1935. He has been with the Levy firm since 1969, serving as company con- troller, and then general manager of Brazil operations before be- coming a vice president and as- sistant general manager in 1974.

Levy, which is headquartered in Morgan City, La., operates one of the largest worldwide fleets of workboats for the petroleum serv- ice industry. It became a Petro- lane subsidiary in 1968, and pro- jects sales in 1976 will exceed $40 million.

Bird-Johnson Opens

West Coast Office as

Herbert I. Chatterton

The Marine Division of Bird-

Johnson Company of Walpole,

Mass., has recently opened an office in Newport Beach, Calif., which will be under the direction of Herbert I. Chatterton.

Mr. Chatterton has been asso- ciated with the marine industry for many years, serving it in such capacities as sales engineer, as- sistant manager of engineering, and assistant general manager for engineering and new construc- tion. His experience covers a broad variety of military and commercial vessels, and most re- cently the design and conversion of drilling ships for the offshore industry.

Mr. Chatterton's office address is: 660 Newport Center Drive,

Suite 1245, Newport Beach, Calif.

April 1, 1976 •

Connecticut Company

To Represent Swedish

C-P Propeller Firm

J.W. Berg AB of Goteborg,

Sweden, manufacturers of con- trollable-pitch propellers for ships up to 20,000 bhp, has announced the appointment of Snyder As- sociates, Inc. of Essex, Conn., as their exclusive sales represent- atives in the USA. Snyder Asso- ciates, Inc. is a marine consult- ancy and sales representative for marine equipment under the di- rection of Asa E. Snyder, presi- dent. Sales of Berg propellers outside the New England area will be handled by distributors to be appointed by Snyder Associates,

Inc. Discussions are also under- way to complete arrangements with suitable U.S. service rep- resentatives.

The Berg propeller is con- structed at a new factory outside

Goteborg, which only manufac- tures variable-pitch propellers.

Swedish craftsmanship and engi- neering go into every Berg pro- peller, which now number about 3,000 in ships all over the world.

Typical applications include: trawlers, cargo vessels, tugboats, supply vessels, and fishing vessels.

Information and literature on the propeller are available from

Snyder Associates, Inc., West

Avenue, Essex, Conn. 06426.

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