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PEOPLE & COMPANY NEWS

CIT Group Names

Marketing Executive

The CIT Group/Capital

Equipment Financing has named

Natalia Cherney Roca vice pres- ident, Marketing. She is responsi- ble for the planning and execution of a comprehensive, integrated marketing program supporting the company's maritime, rail, energy, intermodal and aerospace mar- kets.

OSTS Establishes Snubber

Service

Ocean State Technical Services (OSTS) of Cumberland, R.I., has established an on-site program to inspect, repair and test hydraulic shock and sway suppressors or snubbers. The cornerstone of the program includes a mobile test machine and workshop.

Fleet Tech Ltd. Announces

Appointments

Fleet Technology Ltd. of Kanata,

Canada, has announced two appointments. Ernie Aikens has been named director of the

Materials and Welding Technology

Centre, and will manage the estab- lishment's expansion. Robert

Walker has joined the company as a project engineer in the

Structural Analysis group, and will be assigned to various tasks in risk and reliability as well as numerical modeling.

DeJong & Lebet Completes

SWATH Study; Expands

Staff

DeJong & Lebet, Inc.,

Jacksonville, Fla., has designed a 160 x 65-ft. (48.7 x 19.8-m) SWATH presently under construction at

Leevac Shipyard. Additional

SWATH-type vessels presently being designed by the naval archi- tecture firm are an 180-ft. (54.8-m) megayacht and a gaming vessel of the same size.

These designs are partly based on studies the firm completed on the first real SWATH ship, which according to DeJong & Lebet, was a 145-ft. (44.1-m) vessel construct- ed in Bolnes, Holland, in 1969.

The firm analyzed the vessel's

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HIGH PERFORMANCE

Engine Valves and Piston Rings

For Industrial Engines and Gas Plants

Safety Seal Piston Ring

Company manufactures a complete line of high perfor- mance industrial piston rings for diesel, gas and steam engines as well as all types of compressors, pumps and hydraulic equipment.

Wesco Valve & Manufacturing

Company is the leading suppli- er of Industrial engine power valves, fuel valve cartridges and hydraulic lifters.

Warehouses throughout the

U.S. and Canada.

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Fax 817-685-6388

Wesco Valve and

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P.O. Box J, Marshall, TX 75670 903-938-9241 1-800-525-0143 (U.S. Only)

Fax 903-938-9317

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In addition, the company announced that Robert Hull recently joined the firm, bringing with him extensive experience in yacht and commercial vessel design.

Raytheon Names Top

Executive For North

America Segment

Raytheon Marine Co. has promoted Jeffrey

O. Fellows to presi- dent of Raytheon

Marine Co. North

America. In this posi- tion he will provide management direction and guidance to all organizations within the Raytheon Marine Co.

North America business operation.

Prior to his latest appointment,

Mr. Fellows served as vice presi- dent of the same business unit.

Headquartered in Manchester,

N.H., Raytheon Marine Co. North

America is a leading supplier of marine radars, autopilots, depth sounders, radio telephones, Loran,

GPS receivers and other products marketed under the Raytheon,

Apelco, Autohelm and Anschiitz labels.

Trinity Appoints New VP

Harry W. Hinkle has been appointed vice president,

Specialty Products

Group, for Trinity

Industries, and will work out of Trinity headquarters in

Dallas. In addition to other responsibilities,

Mr. Hinkle will supervise Beaird operations in

Shreveport and the

Brighton and

Hamilton Kettles operations in Ohio and Arkansas, which combine with the entire group of companies to provide custom engi- neering and fabrication orienta- tion.

John H. Wawrzeniak, formerly vice president of Engineering at

Beaird Industries, has been appointed vice president and gen-

Hinkle

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