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Managing Director at Australia Timken Proprietary Ltd. Named

15 September 1998

Peter G. Duffy Named Managing Director at Australia Timken Proprietary Ltd.

    BALLARAT, Victoria, Australia, Sept. 15 -- Peter G. Duffy has
been named managing director of Australian Timken Proprietary Limited.  In
making the announcement, James W. Griffith, group vice president - bearings -
North America automotive, Asia Pacific and Latin America, said Mr. Duffy will
be replacing John Hoover, who is returning to the United States to assume a
new position.
    "We are welcoming Peter Duffy back to Ballarat as managing director," said
Mr. Griffith.  "Peter is the individual most qualified to lead this
organization through its transformation from automotive parts manufacturer to
an even stronger marketer in Australia.  He is returning to work with the
Australian team to determine appropriate investments toward that goal."
    Mr. Duffy joined Australian Timken in 1971 as an accountant in Ballarat.
He also served as company secretary from 1976 to 1987.  In 1987, he moved to
Canton, Ohio, where he held the positions of executive assistant - bearings -
North and South America, and later was named area manager - large industrial
bearings for the Canton Bearing Plant.  He returned to Ballarat in 1991 as
managing director and, in 1995, was named president - Timken Asia Pacific, in
Hong Kong.  Most recently, he was president - Timken China.
    A graduate of St. Patrick's College and the School of Mines Ballarat (now
the University of Ballarat), Mr. Duffy completed the Advanced Management
Program at Melbourne University and the Management Program for Executives at
the University of Pittsburgh.
    He and his wife will be moving from Hong Kong to Ballarat in the near
future.
    The Timken Company is a leading international manufacturer of
highly engineered bearings and alloy steels.