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Daniel V. Zimmerman

Named Comptroller At

Directions In Design

Daniel V. Zimmerman

Daniel V. Zimmerman has been named to the newly created position of comptroller at Directions

In Design, Inc. (DID), a major inter- ior design firm based in Chester- field, Mo. Making the announce- ment was Jane Ganz, president and founder of the company.

As comptroller, Mr. Zimmer- man will function as the firm's chief financial officer. His duties include line management of corporate fi- nancial and credit affairs, adminis- tration of employee benefits and insurance programs, and supervi- sion of the firm's procurement and accounts payable departments.

DID, with offices in Chesterfield,

Lake of the Ozarks, and Columbia,

Mo., is one of St. Louis's largest interior design firms. The company specializes in custom residential, model home, hospitality, health care, office, and ship design.

Marathon LeTourneau Sells

Class 116-C Rig 'Kit'

To Far East Levingston

J. Earl Beckman, president of

Marathon LeTourneau Company, recently announced the sale of a

Marathon LeTourneau-designed

Class 116-C rig "kit" to Singapore- based, Far East Levingston Ship- building, Ltd. (FELS).

A "kit" consists of the proprietary components used in the construc- tion of the offshore mobile drilling rig, primarily leg components and gear units used for self-elevation of the rig, and engineering technology.

FELS holds an exclusive licensing agreement for the construction of

Marathon-designed rigs built in

Asia.

All components are manufactured at Marathon's Vicksburg, Miss., and

Longview, Texas, facilities, with en- gineering support from the compa- ny's Marine Design Engineering group in Houston, Texas. FELS will construct the rig at one of its Re- public of Singapore construction sites.

Marathon recently announced an unrelated sale of a Class 116-C rig to be built at the Vicksburg location for delivery in late 1991 to Brobekk

A.S., a Norwegian company.

For further information and free literature from Marathon LeTour- neau,

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Bird-Johnson Pneumatic

Systems To Be Installed

By PCE On 18 Navy LSTs

Propulsion Controls Engineering (PCE), San Diego, Calif., has re- ceived a contract for the installation of new pneumatic systems on 18 of the U.S. Navy's LST Class ships.

PCE president John P. Reilly said the new contract calls for removal of the original equipment and installa- tion of new systems while the 18 ships are in port in San Diego, Long

Beach and Norfolk, Va.

The new systems, manufactured by Bird-Johnson of Walpole, Mass., represent state-of-the-art technolo- gy that can be installed on each ship in less than two weeks by a skilled nine-man PCE team.

The first phase of the contract, valued at $1.1 million, was awarded to PCE by the Navy Regional Con- tracting Center (agents for NAV-

SESS), Philadelphia, Pa. Work is expected to be completed over a two-year period.

In addition to headquarters in

San Diego, PCE also has facilities in

Seattle and Honolulu.

For further information and free literature on Bird-Johnson pneu- matic systems and marine equip- ment,

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