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Southwest Marine Gets $7-Million Navy Contract

For LKA Overhaul

Southwest Marine Incorpo- rated, San Diego, has been award- ed a $6,950,000 firm fixed-price contract for the regularly sched- uled overhaul of the amphibious cargo ship USS Durham (LKA- 114). The Supervisor of Ship- building, Conversion and Repair,

USN, San Diego, is the contract- ing activity. (N62791-77-C-0001)

Richard Hopkins Promoted

To Vice President Of

J.J. Henry In Moorestown

Richard R. Hopkins

Richard R. Hopkins has been promoted to vice president and director of government market- ing and special projects at J.J.

Henry Co., Inc., reporting to An- thony C. Brown, senior vice pres- ident and manager of the Moores- town Division (Moorestown,

Portsmouth, Crystal City, and

San Diego Offices).

Moving up from assistant vice president, Mr. Hopkins's respon- sibilities will include the overall management of the Portsmouth,

Crystal City, and San Diego branch offices, in addition to man- aging the total government mar- keting, proposal, and contract efforts.

Mr. Hopkins joined the Henry firm in 1952, and has progressed through positions of increasing responsibility in all phases of shipbuilding design, construction, project management, proposals, company training programs, and marketing.

ALCO Power To Introduce

New Model Diesel Engine —Literature Available

Drawing upon a joint total of three and a half centuries of die- sel experience of the GEC Diesel

Group offering a wide range of experience in applications span- ning marine propulsion, marine auxiliaries, offshore power, rail traction, and power generation for industry and public service,

ALCO Power Inc. of Auburn,

N.Y., will display at this year's

Offshore Technology Conference in Houston a soon-to-be-released, 12-cylinder model of a new ALCO 270 series of diesel engines. These engines eventually will be of-

March 15, 1981 fered in the 6, 8, 12, 16, and 18 cylinder configurations.

The company states the range of power that ALCO offers is the result of being part of the GEC

Diesel Group, evolving from years of diesel experience accumulated by such names as Ruston, Pax- man, Dorman, Kelvin, Baudouin, and ALCO.

Utilizing computer-aided ana- lytical methods developed within the Group, this new model ALCO 270 was built with computer- aided design techniques which provide instant information on tolerances and safety margins al- lowing quick assessment of the effect of changes in component dimensions and material specifi- cations.

The new ALCO 270 incorpo- rates the latest state-of-the-art, and was designed to complement

ALCO's current and popular 251 series, thus giving ALCO the po- tential for supplying its custom- ers not only a diesel, but dual- fuel and spark-fired versions as well. The 270 also has the capa- bility of burning inferior quality fuels.

For full information and com- plete literature describing the new ALCO 270,

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