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'Speed Sincher' Cuts

Onboard Lashing Time —Literature Available

The Speed Sincher is a me- chanical device which tensions open-bodied deck-cargo lashing turnbuckles, which are used ex- tensively in the Pacific Northwest in shipments of logs and lumber.

Powered by a gasoline engine and weighing 40 pounds, this unit is highly portable and can tension individual cargo lashings to a force load of 7,000 pounds, in 5 to 25 seconds, depending on the amount of take-up required.

The manufacturer reports

Speed Sinchers have rapidly gained acceptance on the Pacific

Coast because of: (1) ability to drastically shorten turnbuckle maintenance and onboard lashing time; (2) great improvement in cargo security; and (3) adapt- ability to existing ships gear at a very low cost.

It is reported three men using one Speed Sincher can tension a typical ships complement of 80- 100 turnbuckles in under 40 min- utes, substantially reducing man- hours per vessel lashing time.

Speed Sincher provides uniform and consistent tightness of cargo lashing chains. The load is pulled together, which helps to reduce the number of gaps. Turnbuckles with less than minimum take-up after tightening can be quickly unwound, the chain shortened, and retightened, leaving adequate allowance for at-sea relashings.

In conjunction with open bod- ied turnbuckles with cross-sec- tional dimensions not exceeding 3Vo inches by iy2 inches, Speed

Sincher is particularly fast and economical.

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Navy Awards Norshipco $5.8-Million Contract For

Overhaul Of LST-1194

Norfolk Shipbuilding and Dry

Dock Corporation, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $5,798,521 firm fixed-price contract for the regularly scheduled overhaul of

USS Lamoure County (LST- 1194). The Supervisor of Ship- building, Conversion and Repair,

USN, Portsmouth, Va., is the contracting activity. (N62678-76-

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Harold Smith Appointed

General Manager Of

Detroit Diesel Allison

Harold L. Smith Jr.

Harold L. Smith Jr. has been named general manager of the

Detroit Diesel Allison Division,

General Motors Corporation; he is also a GM vice president. Mr.

Smith replaces Donald J. Atwood, who has been appointed group executive in charge of GM's Elec- trical Components Group.

Mr. Smith joined General Mo- tors with the Electro-Motive Di- vision in LaGrange, 111., as a de- tail project engineer in 1946.

Working his way up through the engineering ranks, he became as- sistant chief engineer in 1960, then chief engineer in 1965.

He was promoted to general manager of Electro-Motive Divi- sion and was elected a GM vice president in 1973. The following year he was appointed group ex- ecutive in charge of the GM Pow- er Products Group, the position he held until his latest assign- ment.

Detroit Diesel Allison was formed in 1970, when GM merged the former Detroit Diesel Engine and Allison Divisions. DDA has manufacturing operations in Red- ford Township and Romulus near

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