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D, Pegwt Sts General Qiflees It ia best that ^e ahead with Turbinol 153 at caa ia turn contact if they fesl thia contact ia Ucnar7< Appropriate contacts at General Electric ia Schenectady are Howard Perry, Marketing Manager, or Don Plumiey, Manager, Produet Planning. Both are ia Gas Turbines. Based on General Electric's gas turbine experience to date tlwre is only one fluid that they have field experience. That is the satisfactory experience of Texas Eastern with Turhiaol 153 ia over 20 units that have been ia operation since 1958. Within the last fix months there have been eeveral thrust bearing failures on new Frame 5 units. This has made General Electric rather uneasy about taking the big step to fire resistant fluids in all turbines until the problems caa be resolved. These units are at Texas Eastern and are operating on TurbLool 153. Texas Eastern has taken several steps of a mechanical and fine filtration nature to solve the problem. It is doubtful that conclusive results sufficient to give General Qectric complete confidence in these new turbines will be available much before mid 1971. In the interim it would be to our advantage to sell. and on the years of experience on TurbLnol 153 in GE units. . should be receptive to TurbLool 153 and in turn GE should be receptive to . support of Monsanto, based on the 3 years or so of experience at EdF on the small steam turbine using Pydraul 135. Zf you need additional information oa the experience of Texas Eastern en Turbinol 153 let us kbow. lb Enc. 1 D. R. Pogue TRAN 002566 HARTOLDMON0042328