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Donald Black Named Manager Of AML's New Cleveland Office American Mail Line Ltd., Seat- tle, Wash.-based steamship com- pany, announced the appointment of Donald D. Black Jr. as manager of its new full service office in Cleveland, Ohio. William J. McGowan, vice presi- dent, sales, commenting on the new office, said: "Import/export trade in the Cleveland area has grown to such proportions that the area can only be served by full-time com- pany representation." In addition to the Cleveland area, Mr. Black will serve all major dis- tribution centers in Ohio, West Virginia, and western Pennsylvan- ia, which in the past have been served by the Chicago AML office staff. Mr. Black, no newcomer to the ocean transportation business, has been associated with the steamship industry for the past 15 years. After a short association with the Na- tional Biscuit Company, he joined Jones Shipping Agency, where he remained for five years. He left that firm to assume new responsi- bilities with the Lamark Shipping Agency, with whom he worked for the past 10 years. Both Lamark and Jones are general agents for steamship lines handling export shipments throught the world. Donald D. Black Jr. The Cleveland office is located at 20525 Center Ridge Road. The telephone is (216) 333-4060. American Mail Line operates in trans-Pacific trade with two serv- ices departing from the Pacific Northwest—a full container serv- ice to Japan, and a Far East and Southeast Asia container and breakbulk service. In addition to Chicago and Cleve- land, American Mail Line operates sales and service offices in Seattle, New York, Portland, San Fran- cisco, Washington, D.C., St. Louis and Vancouver, British Columbia. The company is also represented by agencies in Denver, Los An- geles, Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, London, and more than 85 offices in the Far East. MECO Appoints Thomas S. Willets Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc.'s vice president of marketing L.C. Mayfield has announced the recent appointment of Thomas S. Willets as manager, market de- velopment. Mr. Willets has been associated for a number of years with the American Machine and Foundry (AMF) desalting program in the capacity of general sales manager and director of marketing for the Maxim Evaporators Division. Based at MECO's headquarters in New Orleans, La., Mr. Willets will be responsible for the development of the company's flash evaporator market, which includes land based and marine evaporators and waste concentrators. MECO was established in 1929, and offers the most diversified type of distillation equipment from a wide variety of applications in the industrial, municipality, marine, resort, pharmaceutical, and materi- al waste markets. Mechanical Equipment Company, Inc. is a New Orleans firm with head offices located at 861 Caron- delet Street, and manufacturing fa- cilities on the New Orleans Indus- trial Canal. MECO also has offices in England and Lebanon, and in September 1971 opened a large re- search and development laboratory in Destin, Fla., for seawater con- version and water pollution con- trol studies. Propulsion control that thinks for itself. It's called the WABCO Panelmaster pneu- matic propulsion control system. You get fingertip control with fast response. But you also get system interlocks to prevent undesired functions and out-of-sequence operations. These interlocks protect the propulsion system. They include: Power boost... to prevent stalling during clutch engagement; Clutch pressure interlock... to make sure the clutch is engaged before the engine speed increases; Timed neutral interlock ...to insure idle RPM during reversing. And more. The Panelmaster system is seasoned and proven in years of operation on craft of all types... all over the world. It's easy to install and simple to service. We have con- trols and factory-assembled, pre-timed units with interlocks for just about any marine application ... including air or hy- draulic clutch, single and multiple engines. Pneumatic control means simplicity with reliability. Panelmaster is the propulsion control that thinks for itself. Ask your local WABCO Distributor or WABCO Fluid Power Division Sales Office for our free marine control application and performance guides. Or call or write: WABCO FLUID POWER DIVISION 1953 Mercer Road, Lexington, Kentucky 40505 (606) 254-8031-Telex: 021-8426 American-Standard Power and Controls Group working fluids for industry 42 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
