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Timken Company Shareholders Re-elect Directors; Robert Anderson Retires from Board

21 April 1998

Timken Company Shareholders Re-elect Directors; Robert Anderson Retires from Board

    CANTON, Ohio, April 21 -- At The Timken Company's
Annual Meeting of Shareholders, Ward J. Timken, Martin D. Walker and Charles
H. West were re-elected as directors of the company.  Their three-year terms
will expire at the annual meeting in the year 2001.
    Robert Anderson, 77 and chairman emeritus of Rockwell International
Corporation, announced his retirement from the Timken board after serving as a
director for 10 years.  "Bob has brought extraordinary vision and experience
to our board and has been instrumental in shaping successful business
strategies for our company over the years," said W. R. Timken, Jr., chairman,
president and CEO.  "We will miss his wisdom."  The number of directors on the
board has been changed to 11 to reflect Mr. Anderson's retirement.
    The remaining eight directors are as follows:

    J. Clayburn La Force, Jr., Robert W. Mahoney, Jay A. Precourt and Joseph
F. Toot, Jr., whose terms expire at the 1999 annual meeting; and
    Stanley C. Gault, John M. Timken, Jr., W. R. Timken, Jr., and Alton W.
Whitehouse, whose terms expire at the 2000 annual meeting.

    At a meeting of the board after the shareholders' meeting, the following
Timken Company officers were elected for the year:
    W. R. Timken, Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer
    Bill J. Bowling, executive vice president, chief operating officer and
president - steel
    Robert L. Leibensperger, executive vice president, chief operating officer
and president - bearings
    Larry R. Brown, senior vice president and general counsel
    Jon T. Elsasser, group vice president - bearings - rail, Europe, Africa
and West Asia
    James W. Griffith, group vice president - bearings - North American
automotive, Asia Pacific and   Latin America
    Karl P. Kimmerling, group vice president - alloy steel
    Gene E. Little, senior vice president - finance
    Salvatore J. Miraglia, Jr., group vice president - bearings - North
American industrial and super precision
    Stephen A. Perry, senior vice president - human resources, purchasing and
communications
    Hans J. Sack, group vice president - specialty steel and president -
Latrobe Steel Company
    John J. Schubach, senior vice president - strategic management and
continuous improvement
    Thomas W. Strouble, senior vice president - technology
    Ward J. Timken, vice president

    The Timken Company (http://www.timken.com) is a leading international
manufacturer of highly engineered bearings and alloy steels.  The company
employs some 21,000 people worldwide and reported 1997 sales of more than U.S.
$2.6 billion.

SOURCE  The Timken Company