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Harris Awarded $12-Million WATERCOM

Telephone Contract

The Harris Corporation, Mel- bourne, Fla., has been awarded a contract from Waterway Commu- nications System, Inc. (WATER-

COM) of Jeffersonville, Ind., for the design, manufacture, construc- tion and maintenance of a new marine telephone system covering more than 4,000 miles of inland waterways. Total value of the turnkey contract is estimated at $12-million.

For the first time, a single tele- communications network will be available to commercial vessels on the Mississippi, Ohio, and Illinois rivers and the Gulf Intracoastal

Waterway providing them with automatic direct-dial telephone service into the public telephone network.

Commenting on the contract award, WATERCOM president,

Kenneth W. Peters said: "Harris was selected because of its experi- ence in designing advanced sys- tems and its wide array of tele- communication and information processing technologies. The WA-

TERCOM network will not only initiate a high-quality voice serv- ice, but will also directly transmit computer-based data between ves- sels and shore." . Water V is a perfect lubricant.

Oil-free Cutless® rubber bearings stop water pollution, conserve oil.

In these days of fuel scarcity, leaky oil lubricated bearings waste energy and pollute our waterways. With Cutless water lubricated rubber bearings designed by

Lucian Q. Moffitt, Inc., there's no oil seal to fail. No lube oil to leak out and pollute the waterways. Any water will lubricate the

Cutless bearing ... fresh water, salt or sand-filled.

Exclusive "Water Wedge" channels molded into a tough BFGoodrich rubber liner keeps plenty of lubricating water flowing through the Cutless bearing.

Cutless bearings are available world- wide from yards and marine stores in a full range of shaft diameters and load capacities. Write us for engineering data.

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FREEZERS/ TRANSPORT COOLERS

REFRIGERATORS COOLER DOORS

COSPOLICH

REFRIGERATOR CO., INC. 949 INDUSTRY ROAD. KENNER. LOUISIANA USA 70062 (5041 469-6555

AVAILABLE IN VARIOUS VOLTAGES.

MARINE SALES

REPRESENTING £)AnAon (Rubb^C0-

Rubber Sleeve or Flange Bearings

Stuffing Boxes and Keel Coolers

Heavy Duty Fendering

WESTERN BRANCH METALS

Armco Stainless Shafting Systems

Machining — Propeller Nuts

DAMAN INDUSTRIES

Ceramaloy Coatings

Propeller Shaft Liners

Dredge Pump Sleeves and Shafts

KAHLENBERG BROS.

Air Horns — S/S Propellers

NATIONAL FLUID SEPARATORS, INC.

Bilgemaster

Automatic Oily/Water Separator Systems

SCHRADER BELLOWS

Pneumatic Propulsion Control Systems

P.O. Box 33, Glenhead, N.Y. 11545 516-676-3738

The WATERCOM contract was awarded to Harris' newly-formed

Telecommunication Networks Di- vision, based in Melbourne, Fla., which will be responsible for over- all network design, implementa- tion and maintenance. The radi- otelephone products used in the network will be designed and manufactured by Harris's RF

Communications Group, Roches- ter, N.Y.

George P. Roberts, vice presi- dent and general manager of the

Telecommunication Networks Di- vision, said: "WATERCOM is ex- actly the type of customer our di- vision was formed to serve. We are able to draw upon the extensive technology, engineering and man- ufacturing resources of all Harris divisions in response to customers who wish to be served by one sup- plier for total systems capability."

Boyce Machinery Opens

Full Service Machine Shop

Boyce Machinery Corporation announces the opening of its Mor- gan City Machine shop for the service of petrochemical, auto, ma- rine, agricultural, petroleum, and industrial fields throughout south

Louisiana.

This shop will specialize in the remanufacture of worn shafts cyl- inders and castings. The shop will also rebuild crankshafts, cylinder heads and engine blocks.

Many Caterpillar and EMD re- manufactured parts will be stocked as exchange items—offering the customer substantial savings.

Boyce is south Louisiana's Cat- erpillar dealer with branches in

Lake Charles, Lafayette, Baton

Rouge, Morgan City, Reserve, and

New Orleans.

Environmental Systems

Changes Name To

Electrolux Envirovac

The Environmental Systems Di- vision of Electrolux-Wascator AB,

Stockholm, Sweden, has been re- named as Electrolux Envirovac.

The name "Envirovac" has long been used in the United States, where the subsidiary company En- virovac Inc. has installed the Vac- uum Toilet System in innumera- ble vessels, including many United

States Navy and Coast Guard vessels.

The Electrolux Envirovac Vac- uum Toilet System assists in con- forming with pollution control reg- ulations and is classed as a USCG

Type III device.

The change of name for the

Headquarters Division in Stock- holm is accompanied by an orga- nizational change. The Division is now a part of the Electrolux Group company Getinge Mekaniska

Verkstads AB; which manufac- tures and assembles Vacuum Toi- let System components.

The company's new address is:

Electrolux Envirovac, Marine Di- vision, S-105 45 Stockholm,

Sweden.

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