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Ruffner Named Vice

President of Pott's

Inland Waterways Division

David B. Ruffner

David B. Ruffner has been pro- moted to vice president sales-East- ern Region, it was announced by

Richard A. Kienitz, senior vice president-marketing of the Inland

Waterways Division of Pott Indus- tries Inc. Pott Industries is a

Houston Natural Gas Corporation company.

Mr. Ruffner will continue to maintain offices in Pittsburgh and will handle all marketing and sales activities in the Eastern Region, which includes all of the Upper

Ohio area and East Coast cities of

New York and Philadelphia. He will report to Jack Flahaut, vice president-sales, who is located at division headquarters in St. Louis.

Metro Machine Awarded $9.6-Million Navy Contract

To Overhaul LPD Trenton

Metro Machine Corporation,

Norfolk, Va., has been awarded a $9,645,175 firm-fixed-price con- tract for the regularly scheduled overhaul of USS Trenton (LPD- 14). The Supervisor of Shipbuild- ing, Conversion and Repair, USN,

Portsmouth, Va., is the contract- ing activity.

Westinghouse Awarded $9.2-Million Increase

For Nuclear Components

Westinghouse Electric Corpora- tion, Plant Apparatus Division,

Wilkins Township, Pa., has been awarded a $9,210,000 face value increase to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for na- val nuclear propulsion compo- nents. The Naval Sea Systems

Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Mar Ad Awards

Cooperative Research

Contract To Seaworthy

The Maritime Administration has awarded a $342,500 contract to Seaworthy Engine Systems, Inc.,

Essex, Conn., as part of a coopera- tive research project to evaluate the benefits of applying exotic ce- ramic and metallic coatings to combustion system components of high-speed marine diesels.

The company will install and, according to a schedule, remove combustion system components being tested. It also will analyze and evaluate engine performance.

Two towboat owners and opera- tors, Ohio Barge Lines, Inc., of

Dravosburg, Pa., and Ingram Barge

Company of Nashville, Tenn., are cooperating in the project, as is the Electro-Motive Division of the

General Motors Corp. of La Grange, 111.

Coatings will be selected, ap- plied and evaluated by the Law- rence Berkeley Laboratory of the

University of California under the supervision of the Department of

Energy.

Under each of the two phases of the project, coated combustion sys- tem components (valves, pistons, heads, rings and turbo-chargers) will be installed in two high-speed diesel engines. The coated compo- nents will be left in one engine for about 6,000 hours; selected com- ponents will be removed from the other at about 500-hour intervals.

In the first phase, to be com- pleted in April 1985, the engines will operate on No. 2 marine die- sel fuel. During the second phase, to be completed a year later, off- specification and blended fuels will be used.

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