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Williams Controls Subsidiary Receives Quality Award from PACCAR

21 January 1999

Williams Controls Subsidiary Receives Quality Award from PACCAR

    PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 21 -- Williams Controls, Inc.
announced that its subsidiary, Williams Controls Industries,
has been selected by PACCAR, Inc. and its divisions to receive the PACCAR
Supplier Quality Certification Award.  The award is being presented to
recognize the fulfillment of PACCAR's Supplier Quality Certification Program
requirements.
    Quoting from a letter recently received from PACCAR, "Williams Controls'
effort to attain Quality Certification has helped to enhance the quality of
PACCAR products", and Williams Controls is "now eligible for preferential
business placement and long-term contract consideration."
    Williams Controls chairman and CEO Thomas W. Itin stated, "We are very
proud of the quality improvement process in place at Williams Controls
Industries and at all our operations.  This recognition from the PACCAR
organization validates the effort put forth by all of our associates."
    Vice President and General Manager of Williams Controls Industries, Dennis
C. Knowlton, stated, "Being a supplier to the PACCAR companies is something
toward which the Williams Controls Industries organization has been working
for the past seven years, and this award is an important step in reaching that
goal.  Everyone on the team at our Portland operation deserves congratulations
on this important achievement, and we are honored that the PACCAR organization
has chosen to recognize Williams Controls with this award."
    Williams Controls is a leading manufacturer and integrator of innovative
sensors, controls and communications systems for the transportation and
communications industries.  For more information, you can reach the Company at
http://www.wmco.com on the World Wide Web.
    Forward-looking statements in this news release, if any, are made under
the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995.  Certain important factors could cause results to differ materially from
those anticipated by the statements, including the impact of changing economic
or business conditions, the impact of competition, the availability of
financing, the success of products in the marketplace, other factors inherent
in the industry and other factors discussed from time to time in reports filed
by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.