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| 1992 |
 Henkels & McCoy installs 79 miles of steel gas line for Transwestern
Pipeline Company in northern Arizona in choking, dusty, rugged, rocky, sandy
-- and even mountainous -- desert terrain through 100 degree days and 40
degree nights. The $22 million project is the largest assignment yet by
H&M's New Jersey Division (later Pipeline Division)…Mrs. Anne Henkels,
widow of founder John B. (Jack) Henkels, Jr., celebrates her 95th
Birthday at a surprise party held at the office. Still active in company
business as an honorary member of the board, she had come into the company
headquarters to sign some documents… Kenneth L. Rose, Ph.D. is elected President and Chief Executive Officer of
Henkels & McCoy... Henkels & McCoy's Engineering Division helps
design two new storage tanks for British Petroleum's Marcus Hook refinery.
In addition, a leak detection system is designed as well as designs for
foundations and fire protection systems. Each tank will have a 93,000-barrel
capacity… H&M's Industrial Division constructs foundations for four
transformers, switching gear, two A-frame transmission towers and other
electrical equipment at a new substation for Public Service Electric & Gas
in Clarksville, N.J. Also built is a 23 x 59 x 13 foot control house…
Henkels & McCoy use s a Precision Measurement Vehicle (PMV) to survey up to
40 miles of railroad right of way per day. The vehicle looks like a standard
pickup truck, and it is, but it is also equipped with high rail wheels,
enabling it to stay on track while surveying poles and other objects at a
previously unheard-of speed. The machine can match in a day what would
normally take old fashioned surveyors two full weeks to accomplish. The PMV
is exclusively licensed for use to Henkels & McCoy by Union Pacific
Railroad, its inventor… H&M helps archeologists uncover almost 9,500 years
of prehistory at a river crossing at the New Jersey-Pennsylvania state line.
Arrowheads, tools and spear tips dating from 7,000 BCE are discovered as
well as nearly-intact foundations from a settler's home, circa 1803… H&M
engineers arrive in Terceira, in the Azores, 800 miles southwest of Portugal
to begin designing an upgrade of a 30-year old communications system at a US
Air Force base… Members of Henkels & McCoy's Transmission & Distribution
Division from Texas and Louisiana are dispatched to Tulsa and Lawton,
Oklahoma where 90 to 100 mile per hour winds snap electrical poles "like
bread sticks" and knock out power. Twenty-one tall electric transmission
poles, carrying both 138kV and a 12kV line are knocked down like dominoes on
West Lee Boulevard in Lawton. Power is restored to both areas within three
days… Hurricane Iniki sweeps through the Hawaiian island of Kauai, knocking
out 90% of all utility poles and 95% of its phone service and leaves the
island without electricity and hot water. H&M restoration crews arrive by
airliner and vehicles, shipped from as far away as Pennsylvania are
transported by Boeing 747 and finally arrive at Kauai by a US Army transport
ship. The three-month long restoration project underscores H&M's ability to
restore power in emergency situations, even those that occur 6,000 miles
from headquarters. January February 1
April 9 April 29 June 16 August 20 September 22 October November 24 November 25 December 3 December 17 ALSO IN 1992:
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