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PRESS RELEASE

Shareholders Approve Aeroquip-Vickers, Inc.

17 April 1997

Shareholders Approve Aeroquip-Vickers, Inc.

    MAUMEE, Ohio, April 17 -- Today at the annual meeting of
shareholders, "Aeroquip-Vickers, Inc." was approved as the new name for
TRINOVA Corporation .  The company's New York Stock Exchange ticker
symbol changes from TNV to ANV, effective April 18, 1997.
    "Aeroquip and Vickers are the names that have been respected and known in
the marketplace for decades, and we believe it is appropriate that our
corporate identity now mirrors the identities known by our customers," said
Darryl F. Allen, Aeroquip-Vickers chairman, president and chief executive
officer.  "By identifying us with our premier operating company names, we will
increase understanding of who we are and what we do."
    Aeroquip-Vickers, Inc. is two companies, Aeroquip Corporation and Vickers,
Incorporated, worldwide manufacturers and distributors of engineered
components and systems to the industrial, automotive and aerospace markets,
with 1996 sales of $2.03 billion.

SOURCE  TRINOVA

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CONTACT: Investors, William R. Ammann, 419-867-2215, or Media,
Richard G. Rump, 419-867-2292, of TRINOVA