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Richard C. Legge, Jr., has joined Repco, Inc. as director of national sales. Legge’s experience has been in market analysis, marketing administration, and sales management. His responsibilities with Repco will include repositioning the company within the communications industry as well as overseeing the total national sales effort.

Repco, Inc., headquartered in Orlando, PL, manufactures two-way radio equipment, telemetry products, equipment for the Radio Common Carrier market, and wireless security systems. Luxfer USA Limited, manufacturer of highpressure aluminum cylinders, announces the following personnel changes:

Tom D. Shanley has stepped into the newly created position of midwestern regional sales manager. He has been with Luxfer for five years, previously serving as eastern regional sales manager.

J. M. (Mike) Brown has joined Luxfer as eastern regional sales manager. Brown comes to Luxfer with seven years experience in the compressed gas industry.

Maxine Gilson, who was a customer service manager with Snap-tite, Inc., in Union City, PA, died of a heart attack on January 25,1985. Mrs. Gilson had been with the company for many years and will be missed by all who worked with her.

The United States Testing Company, Inc., with headquarters in Hoboken, NJ, announced that it has completed the relocation of its Engineering Services Division to a modem one-story building in Fairfield, NJ.

The move of the laboratory to a 23,500 square-foot building allows for expansion of the facilities of the Engineering Services Division, both indoor and outdoor, when required. The services provided include metallurgical studies, materials evaluation, plastics testing, flammability of construction materials, consumer product evaluations, environmental chambers, package testing, home entertainment equipment evaluations, and outdoor power equipment studies.

Hand entrapped in rope gripper

Elevator Rescue: Rope Gripper Entrapment

Mike Dragonetti discusses operating safely while around a Rope Gripper and two methods of mitigating an entrapment situation.
Delta explosion

Two Workers Killed, Another Injured in Explosion at Atlanta Delta Air Lines Facility

Two workers were killed and another seriously injured in an explosion Tuesday at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport.