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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August&nbsp;5, 2005</B></DIV>


<DIV align="right" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<B>Registration No.&nbsp;333-</B><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 14pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>UNITED STATES<BR>
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>Washington, D. C. 20549</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 18pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FORM S-8</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 12pt"><B>THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 24pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FEDERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</DIV>


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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>DELAWARE</B><BR>
(State or other jurisdiction of<BR>
incorporation or organization)
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>1415 W. 22nd Street<BR>
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523<BR>
(630)&nbsp;954-2000</B><BR>
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><B>36-1063330</B><BR>
(I.R.S. Employer<BR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>FEDERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION<BR>
2005 EXECUTIVE INCENTIVE COMPENSATION PLAN</B><BR>
(Full title of the plan)</DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>JENNIFER L. SHERMAN<BR>
Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary<BR>
Federal Signal Corporation<BR>
1415 W. 22nd Street<BR>
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523<BR>
(630)&nbsp;954-2000</B><BR>
(Name, address and telephone number,<BR>
including area code, of agent for service)</DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Copy to:<BR>
ROBERT M. LAROSE, ESQ.<BR>
ANDREW J. KLINGHAMMER, ESQ.<BR>
Thompson Coburn LLP<BR>
One US Bank Plaza<BR>
St. Louis, Missouri 63101<BR>
Telephone: (314)&nbsp;552-6000<BR>
Facsimile: (314)&nbsp;552-7000</B></DIV>

<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</B></DIV>

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                    <TD style="border-top: 2px solid #000000"><DIV style="margin-left:15px; text-indent:-15px">Federal Signal Corporation
Common Stock, $1.00 par
value<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">(1)</SUP></DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">4,000,000</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$17.38</TD>

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<TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$69,520,000</TD>
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<TD align="center" valign="bottom" style="border-top: 2px solid #000000">$8,183</TD>
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    <TD>Includes one attached Preferred Share Purchase Right per share.</TD>
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    <TD>Estimated solely for the purposes of computing the Registration
Fee pursuant to the provisions of Rule 457(c) and (h), based upon a price of
$17.38 per share, being the average of the high and low sale per share prices of
common stock, $1.00 par value, of the Registrant as reported on the New York
Stock Exchange on July&nbsp;29, 2005.</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The undersigned registrant, Federal Signal Corporation (the &#147;Registrant&#148;), hereby files
this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this &#147;Registration Statement&#148;) to register four million
(4,000,000) shares of the Registrant&#146;s common stock, $1.00 par value (&#147;Common Stock&#148;), and attached
Preferred Share Purchase Rights, for issuance to participants under the Federal Signal Corporation
2005 Executive Incentive Compensation Plan (the &#147;Plan&#148;).
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>PART II</B>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</B>
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt">Item&nbsp;3. <U>Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference</U>.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission
are incorporated herein by reference:
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    <TD width="2%" style="background: transparent">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left">(i)</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>The Registrant&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 2004,
as amended by Amendment 1 to Annual Report on Form 10-K/A filed on March&nbsp;18, 2005;</TD>
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<TR>
    <TD style="font-size: 6pt">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD width="2%" style="background: transparent">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left">(ii)</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>The Registrant&#146;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March&nbsp;31,
2005;</TD>
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    <TD width="2%" style="background: transparent">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left">(iii)</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>The Registrant&#146;s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule&nbsp;14A filed on March&nbsp;22,
2005;</TD>
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    <TD width="2%" style="background: transparent">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left">(iv)</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>The Registrant&#146;s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on March&nbsp;18, 2005, March&nbsp;30,
2005, April&nbsp;15, 2005, May&nbsp;2, 2005, May&nbsp;9, 2005,
May&nbsp;13, 2005, May&nbsp;16, 2005, and
August&nbsp;1, 2005;</TD>
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    <TD width="2%" style="background: transparent">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left">(v)</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>The description of the Registrant&#146;s Common Stock set forth in the Registrant&#146;s
registration statement on Form 8-A, dated July&nbsp;28, 1998 (File No.&nbsp;001-06003), including
any amendment filed for the purpose of updating such description; and</TD>
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    <TD width="2%" style="background: transparent">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="2%" nowrap align="left">(vi)</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>The description of the Registrant&#146;s Shareholder Rights Plan, dated July&nbsp;9, 1998,
contained in the Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed on July&nbsp;28, 1998,
and any amendment or report filed for the purposes of updating such description.</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Such incorporation by reference shall not be deemed to incorporate by reference the
information referred to in Item&nbsp;402(a)(8) of Regulation&nbsp;S-K.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections&nbsp;13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 after the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the
filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been
sold or which deregisters all securities remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference in this Registration Statement and to be made a part hereof from the date of filing of
such documents. Any statements contained herein or in a document incorporated herein by reference
shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the
extent that a statement contained in a subsequently filed document incorporated herein by reference
modifies or supersedes such document. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed,
except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Where any document or part thereof is incorporated by reference in this Registration
Statement, the Registrant will provide without charge to each person to whom a Prospectus with
respect to the Plan is delivered, upon written or oral request of such person, a copy of any and
all of the information
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement, excluding exhibits unless such exhibits
are specifically incorporated by reference.
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt">Item&nbsp;6. <U>Indemnification of Directors and Officers</U>.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section&nbsp;102 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware allows a corporation to limit
directors&#146; personal liability to the corporation or its stockholders from monetary damages for
breach of fiduciary duty as a director, with certain exceptions. Article&nbsp;Fourteenth of the
Registrant&#146;s Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, provides such limitation to the
fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of Delaware.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Section&nbsp;145 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware permits a corporation, subject to the
standards set forth therein, to indemnify any person in connection with any action suit or
proceeding brought or threatened by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director,
officer, employee or agent of the corporation or is or was serving as such with respect to another
entity at the request of the corporation. Article&nbsp;Fifth of the Registrant&#146;s Restated Certificate of
Incorporation and Article&nbsp;VI of the Registrant&#146;s By-Laws provide for full indemnification of its
directors and officers to the extent permitted by Section&nbsp;145.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Registrant maintains a directors&#146; and officers&#146; liability insurance policy with total
annual limits of $35,000,000. Subject to the limits, retentions, exceptions and other terms and
conditions of the policy, the Registrant&#146;s directors and officers are insured against liability for
any actual or alleged error, misstatement, misleading statement, act or omission in the discharge
of their respective responsibilities to the Registrant solely in their capacity as directors and
officers of the Registrant.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be
permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, the Registrant has been informed that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933
and is therefore unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a
director, officer, or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any
action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer, or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its
counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed against public policy as expressed in the
Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt">Item&nbsp;8. <U>Exhibits</U>.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;See Exhibit&nbsp;Index on page 8 hereof.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt">Item&nbsp;9. <U>Undertakings</U>.
</DIV>


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    <TD>The Registrant hereby undertakes:</TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 4%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To file, during any period in which offers and sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 7%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To include any prospectus required by Section&nbsp;10(a)(3) of the Securities
Act of 1933;
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 7%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the
effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective
amendment thereof), which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental
change in the information set forth in the registration statement;
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 7%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(iii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To include any material information with respect to the plan of
distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material
change to such information in the registration statement;
</DIV>
<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt"><I>provided, however, </I>that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the registration
statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3, and the information required to be included in a
post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or
furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.
</DIV>



<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 4%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of
1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time
shall be deemed to be the initial <I>bona fide </I>offering thereof.
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt; margin-left: 4%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial <I>bona fide </I>offering thereof.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be
permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the
foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in
the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against
such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a
director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action,
suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with
the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the
matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the
question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and
will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>SIGNATURES</B>
</DIV>


<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>The Registrant</U>. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Village of Oak Brook, State of
Illinois, on August&nbsp;5, 2005.
</DIV>

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<TR>
    <TD width="48%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="1%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="35%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="15%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD valign="top" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" align="left">FEDERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION<BR>
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">                                              /s/ Robert D. Welding
&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" align="left">President and Chief Executive Officer&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR><TR>
    <TD align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD colspan="3" align="left">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
    <TD colspan="5">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><B>POWER OF ATTORNEY</B>
</DIV>



<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Robert D. Welding,
and Jennifer L. Sherman, and each of them, the undersigned&#146;s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the undersigned and in the
undersigned&#146;s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments
(including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form S-8 with respect to
the Federal Signal Corporation 2005 Executive Incentive Compensation Plan, and to file the same,
with exhibits and any and all other documents filed with respect thereto, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or regulatory authority), granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and to perform each
and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in ratifying and confirming all that
said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
</DIV>

<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the
date indicated.
</DIV>
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    <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="20%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom">
    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Signature</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Title</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Date</B></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">/s/ Robert D. Welding
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">
President, Chief Executive
Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 5, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" valign="top">/s/ Stephanie K. Kushner
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">
Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 5, 2005</TD>
</TR>
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    <TD width="35%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="35%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="5%">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD width="20%">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR style="font-size: 8pt" valign="bottom">
    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Signature</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Title</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD nowrap align="center" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Date</B></TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top">/s/ Paul Brown
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">
Vice President and Controller
(Principal Accounting Officer)
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 5, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" valign="top">/s/ James C. Janning
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 5, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" valign="top">/s/ Paul W. Jones
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 5, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" valign="top">/s/ Joan E. Ryan
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 5, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" valign="top">/s/ John McCartney
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 5, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" valign="top">/s/ Robert M. Gerrity
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 5, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" valign="top">/s/ Robert S. Hamada
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 5, 2005</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 1em">
    <TD align="center" valign="top">/s/ Charles R. Campbell
<DIV style="font-size: 1pt; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">
Director
</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="center" valign="top">August 5, 2005</TD>
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<DIV align="center" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 18pt"><U><B>EXHIBIT INDEX</B></U>
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    <TD nowrap align="left" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000"><B>Exhibit No.</B></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant, as currently in effect,
filed as Exhibit (3)(a) to the Registrant&#146;s Form&nbsp;10-K for the fiscal year ended
December&nbsp;31, 1996, and incorporated herein by reference.</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.2
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">By-Laws of the Registrant, as last amended February&nbsp;13, 2004, filed as Exhibit&nbsp;3.b
to the Registrant&#146;s Form&nbsp;10-K for the fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31, 2003, and
incorporated herein by reference.</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">4.3
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Shareholder Rights Plan, dated July&nbsp;9, 1998, filed as Exhibit (4)&nbsp;to the
Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;8-A, filed on July&nbsp;28, 1998, and
incorporated herein by reference.</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">5.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Opinion of Thompson Coburn LLP as to the legality of the securities being registered.</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">23.2
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Consent of Thompson Coburn LLP (included in Exhibit&nbsp;5.1).</TD>
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    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</TD>
</TR>
<TR valign="bottom">
    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">24.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Power of Attorney (set forth on signature page hereto).</TD>
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    <TD align="center" valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">99.1
</DIV></TD>
    <TD>&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD align="left" valign="top">Federal Signal Corporation 2005 Executive Incentive Compensation Plan, attached as
Appendix&nbsp;B to the Registrant&#146;s Proxy Statement on Schedule&nbsp;14A (File No.&nbsp;001-06003),
filed by the Registrant with the Commission on March&nbsp;22, 2005, and incorporated
herein by reference.</TD>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 5, 2005
Registration No. 333-
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C. 20549
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
FEDERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
DELAWARE
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
1415 W. 22nd Street
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
(630) 954-2000
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
36-1063330
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
FEDERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION
2005 EXECUTIVE INCENTIVE COMPENSATION PLAN
(Full title of the plan)
JENNIFER L. SHERMAN
Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary
Federal Signal Corporation
1415 W. 22nd Street
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
(630) 954-2000
(Name, address and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
Copy to:
ROBERT M. LAROSE, ESQ.
ANDREW J. KLINGHAMMER, ESQ.
Thompson Coburn LLP
One US Bank Plaza
St. Louis, Missouri 63101
Telephone: (314) 552-6000
Facsimile: (314) 552-7000
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed maximum
Proposed maximum
Title of each class of
Amount to be
offering price
aggregate offering
Amount of
securities to be registered
registered
per share
(2)
price
(2)
registration fee
Federal Signal Corporation
Common Stock, $1.00 par
value
(1)
4,000,000
$17.38
$69,520,000
$8,183
(1)
Includes one attached Preferred Share Purchase Right per share.
(2)
Estimated solely for the purposes of computing the Registration
Fee pursuant to the provisions of Rule 457(c) and (h), based upon a price of
$17.38 per share, being the average of the high and low sale per share prices of
common stock, $1.00 par value, of the Registrant as reported on the New York
Stock Exchange on July 29, 2005.
The undersigned registrant, Federal Signal Corporation (the "Registrant"), hereby files
this Registration Statement on Form S-8 (this "Registration Statement") to register four million
(4,000,000) shares of the Registrant's common stock, $1.00 par value ("Common Stock"), and attached
Preferred Share Purchase Rights, for issuance to participants under the Federal Signal Corporation
2005 Executive Incentive Compensation Plan (the "Plan").
PART II
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item 3.
Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference
.
The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and Exchange Commission
are incorporated herein by reference:
(i)
The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004,
as amended by Amendment 1 to Annual Report on Form 10-K/A filed on March 18, 2005;
(ii)
The Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31,
2005;
(iii)
The Registrant's Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed on March 22,
2005;
(iv)
The Registrant's Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on March 18, 2005, March 30,
2005, April 15, 2005, May 2, 2005, May 9, 2005,
May 13, 2005, May 16, 2005, and
August 1, 2005;
(v)
The description of the Registrant's Common Stock set forth in the Registrant's
registration statement on Form 8-A, dated July 28, 1998 (File No. 001-06003), including
any amendment filed for the purpose of updating such description; and
(vi)
The description of the Registrant's Shareholder Rights Plan, dated July 9, 1998,
contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed on July 28, 1998,
and any amendment or report filed for the purposes of updating such description.
Such incorporation by reference shall not be deemed to incorporate by reference the
information referred to in Item 402(a)(8) of Regulation S-K.
All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 after the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the
filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been
sold or which deregisters all securities remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference in this Registration Statement and to be made a part hereof from the date of filing of
such documents. Any statements contained herein or in a document incorporated herein by reference
shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the
extent that a statement contained in a subsequently filed document incorporated herein by reference
modifies or supersedes such document. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed,
except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
Where any document or part thereof is incorporated by reference in this Registration
Statement, the Registrant will provide without charge to each person to whom a Prospectus with
respect to the Plan is delivered, upon written or oral request of such person, a copy of any and
all of the information
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement, excluding exhibits unless such exhibits
are specifically incorporated by reference.
Item 6.
Indemnification of Directors and Officers
.
Section 102 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware allows a corporation to limit
directors' personal liability to the corporation or its stockholders from monetary damages for
breach of fiduciary duty as a director, with certain exceptions. Article Fourteenth of the
Registrant's Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, provides such limitation to the
fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law of Delaware.
Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware permits a corporation, subject to the
standards set forth therein, to indemnify any person in connection with any action suit or
proceeding brought or threatened by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director,
officer, employee or agent of the corporation or is or was serving as such with respect to another
entity at the request of the corporation. Article Fifth of the Registrant's Restated Certificate of
Incorporation and Article VI of the Registrant's By-Laws provide for full indemnification of its
directors and officers to the extent permitted by Section 145.
The Registrant maintains a directors' and officers' liability insurance policy with total
annual limits of $35,000,000. Subject to the limits, retentions, exceptions and other terms and
conditions of the policy, the Registrant's directors and officers are insured against liability for
any actual or alleged error, misstatement, misleading statement, act or omission in the discharge
of their respective responsibilities to the Registrant solely in their capacity as directors and
officers of the Registrant.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be
permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing
provisions, the Registrant has been informed that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933
and is therefore unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a
director, officer, or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any
action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer, or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its
counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed against public policy as expressed in the
Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
Item 8.
Exhibits
.
See Exhibit Index on page 8 hereof.
Item 9.
Undertakings
.
(a)
The Registrant hereby undertakes:
(1)      To file, during any period in which offers and sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
(i)      To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities
Act of 1933;
(ii)      To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the
effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective
amendment thereof), which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental
change in the information set forth in the registration statement;
(iii)      To include any material information with respect to the plan of
distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material
change to such information in the registration statement;
provided, however,
that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the registration
statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3, and the information required to be included in a
post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or
furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.
(2)      That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of
1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time
shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering thereof.
(3)      To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
(b)      The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such
securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide
offering thereof.
(c)      Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be
permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the
foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the
Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in
the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against
such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a
director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action,
suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with
the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the
matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the
question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and
will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
The Registrant
. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Village of Oak Brook, State of
Illinois, on August 5, 2005.
FEDERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION
/s/ Robert D. Welding
President and Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Robert D. Welding,
and Jennifer L. Sherman, and each of them, the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the undersigned and in the
undersigned's name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments
(including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement on Form S-8 with respect to
the Federal Signal Corporation 2005 Executive Incentive Compensation Plan, and to file the same,
with exhibits and any and all other documents filed with respect thereto, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (or any other governmental or regulatory authority), granting unto said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and to perform each
and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in ratifying and confirming all that
said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitute or substitutes may lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the
date indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Robert D. Welding
President, Chief Executive
Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
August 5, 2005
/s/ Stephanie K. Kushner
Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
August 5, 2005
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Paul Brown
Vice President and Controller
(Principal Accounting Officer)
August 5, 2005
/s/ James C. Janning
Director
August 5, 2005
/s/ Paul W. Jones
Director
August 5, 2005
/s/ Joan E. Ryan
Director
August 5, 2005
/s/ John McCartney
Director
August 5, 2005
/s/ Robert M. Gerrity
Director
August 5, 2005
/s/ Robert S. Hamada
Director
August 5, 2005
/s/ Charles R. Campbell
Director
August 5, 2005
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No.
4.1
Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant, as currently in effect,
filed as Exhibit (3)(a) to the Registrant's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 1996, and incorporated herein by reference.
4.2
By-Laws of the Registrant, as last amended February 13, 2004, filed as Exhibit 3.b
to the Registrant's Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, and
incorporated herein by reference.
4.3
Shareholder Rights Plan, dated July 9, 1998, filed as Exhibit (4) to the
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed on July 28, 1998, and
incorporated herein by reference.
5.1
Opinion of Thompson Coburn LLP as to the legality of the securities being registered.
23.1
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
23.2
Consent of Thompson Coburn LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1
Power of Attorney (set forth on signature page hereto).
99.1
Federal Signal Corporation 2005 Executive Incentive Compensation Plan, attached as
Appendix B to the Registrant's Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A (File No. 001-06003),
filed by the Registrant with the Commission on March 22, 2005, and incorporated
herein by reference.