Registration No. 333-_____


                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C.  20549
                           ___________________________

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      Under
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                               __________________

                             JOHNSON CONTROLS, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

             Wisconsin                                          39-0380010
   (State or other jurisdiction                             (I.R.S. Employer 
   of incorporation or organization)                      Identification No.)

             5757 N. Green Bay Avenue
                   P. O. Box 591
               Milwaukee, Wisconsin                               53201
     (Address of principal executive offices)                   (Zip Code)

                  Johnson Controls Northern New Mexico, L.L.C.
                             Retirement Savings Plan
                            (Full title of the plan)
                              ____________________

                                 John P. Kennedy
                                    Secretary
                             Johnson Controls, Inc.
                            5757 N. Green Bay Avenue
                                  P. O. Box 591
                           Milwaukee, Wisconsin  53201
                                 (414) 228-1200
            (Name, address and telephone number, including area code,
                              of agent for service)
                           __________________________

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

                                    Proposed       Proposed
                                     Maximum       Maximum
       Title of        Amount       Offering      Aggregate      Amount of
     Securities to     to be          Price       Offering     Registration
     be Registered  Registered     Per Share        Price           Fee

    Common Stock,   250,000       $47.3125(1)    $11,828,125     $3,584.28
    $0.16-2/3 par   shares                             (1)
    value                                                           (2)
                                        (2)
    Common Stock    250,000                          (2)
    Purchase        rights
    Rights


   (1)      Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act of
            1933 solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee
            based on the average of the high and low prices for Johnson
            Controls, Inc. Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange
            consolidated reporting system on September 23, 1997.

   (2)      The value attributable to the Common Stock Purchase Rights is
            reflected in the market price of the Common Stock to which the
            Rights are attached.

                                                             

            In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of
   1933, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of
   interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan
   described herein.


   <PAGE>


                                     PART I 

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

             The document or documents containing the information specified
   in Part I are not required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange
   Commission (the "Commission") as part of this Form S-8 Registration
   Statement. 

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

   Item 3.   Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

             The following documents filed with the Commission by Johnson
   Controls, Inc. (the "Company") or by the Johnson Controls Northern New
   Mexico, L.L.C. Retirement Savings Plan (the "Plan") are hereby
   incorporated herein by reference:

             1.   The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal
   year ended September 30, 1996.

             2.   The Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the
   quarters ended December 31, 1996, March 31, 1997 and June 30, 1997.

             3.   The Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K filed October 4,
   1996, December 10, 1996, March 10, 1997 (two reports) (which financial
   statements have been restated to give effect to the reclassification of
   the Plastic Container division as a discontinued operation and for the
   stock split distributed on March 31, 1997 to shareholders of record on
   March 7, 1997) and May 30, 1997.

             4.   The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in
   Item 1 of the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated April 23,
   1965, as superseded by the description contained in the Company's
   definitive proxy/registration statement (Form S-14 Registration No. 2-
   62382) incorporated by reference as Exhibit 1 to Current Report on Form 8-
   K, dated October 23, 1978, and in the Company's Registration Statement on
   Form S-14, dated April 18, 1985 (Registration No. 2-97136), and any
   amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

             5.   The description of the Company's Common Stock Purchase
   Rights contained in Item 1 of the Company's Registration Statement on Form
   8-A, filed November 30, 1994, and any amendments or reports filed for the
   purpose of updating such description.

             All documents subsequently filed by the Company or the Plan
   pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
   Act of 1934, as amended, after the date of filing of this Registration
   Statement and prior to such time as the Company files a post-effective
   amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all
   securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all
   securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by
   reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the
   date of filing of such documents.

   Item 4.   Description of Securities.

             Not applicable.

   Item 5.   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

             None.

   Item 6.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

             Pursuant to the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law and the
   Company's Bylaws, directors and officers of the Company are entitled to
   mandatory indemnification from the Company against certain liabilities 
   and expenses (i) to the extent such officers or directors are successful
   in the defense of a proceeding and (ii) in proceedings in which the 
   director or officer is not successful in the defense thereof, unless (in
   the latter case only) it is determined that the director or officer 
   breached or failed to perform his duties to the Company and such breach
   or failure constituted: (a) a willful failure to deal fairly with the 
   Company or its shareholders in connection with a matter in which the
   director or officer had a material conflict of interest; (b) a violation 
   of the criminal law, unless the director or officer had reasonable cause 
   to believe his or her conduct was lawful or had no reasonable cause to 
   believe his or her conduct was unlawful; (c) a transaction from which the 
   director or officer derived an improper personal. profit; or (d) willful 
   misconduct.  The Wisconsin Business Corporation Law specifically states 
   that it is the policy of Wisconsin to require or permit indemnification in
   connection with a proceeding involving securities regulation, as described
   therein, to the extent required or permitted as described above.  
   Additionally, under the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law, directors of 
   the Company are not subject to personal liability to the Company, its 
   shareholders or any person asserting rights on behalf thereof for certain 
   breaches or failures to perform any duty resulting solely from their status
   except in circumstances paralleling those in subparagraphs (a) through (d) 
   outlined above.  

             Expenses for the defense of any action for which indemnification
   may be available may be advanced by the Company under certain
   circumstances.

             The indemnification provided by the Wisconsin Business
   Corporation Law and the Company's By-Laws is not exclusive of any other
   rights to which a director or officer of the Company may be entitled.  The
   general effect of the foregoing provisions may be to reduce the
   circumstances which an officer or director may be required to bear the
   economic burden of the foregoing liabilities and expense.

             The Company maintains a liability insurance policy for its
   directors and officers as permitted by Wisconsin law which may extend to,
   among other things, liability arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as
   amended.

   Item 7.   Exemption from Registration Claimed.

             Not applicable.

   Item 8.   Exhibits.

             The exhibits filed herewith or incorporated herein by reference
   are set forth in the attached Exhibit Index.

             The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes to submit the Plan,
   as amended, to the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") in a timely manner and
   will make all changes required by the IRS in order to continue the
   qualification of the Plan under Section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code
   of 1986, as amended.

   Item 9.   Undertakings.

             (a)  The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

             (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or 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, as amended;

                  (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 information required to be included in a post-effective amendment
   by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or
   furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission by the Registrant
   pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
   1934, as amended, that are incorporated by reference in the Registration
   Statement.

             (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
   the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, each such post-effective amendment
   shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the
   securities offered herein, 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 undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for
   purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as
   amended, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section
   13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
   that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be
   deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the securities
   offered herein, 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, as amended, 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.


   <PAGE>

                                   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 City of Milwaukee,
   State of Wisconsin, as of September 24, 1997.

                                 JOHNSON CONTROLS, INC.



                                 By:  /s/ John P. Kennedy
                                      John P. Kennedy
                                      Vice President

             Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
   Registration Statement has been signed below  as of September 24, 1997, by
   the following persons in the capacities indicated.  Each person whose
   signature appears below constitutes and appoints James H. Keyes, Stephen
   A. Roell and John P. Kennedy, and each of them individually, his or her
   attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and
   resubstitution for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in
   any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-
   effective amendments) to the Registration Statement and to file the same,
   with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith,
   with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-
   in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and
   perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
   connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she
   might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
   attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his or her
   substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
   hereof.


    /s/ James H. Keyes              Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and
    James H. Keyes                 Director (principal executive officer)



    /s/ Stephen A. Roell         Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
    Stephen A. Roell                 (principal financial and accounting
                                                  officer)


    /s/ William F. Andrews                        Director
    William F. Andrews



    /s/ Robert L. Barnett                         Director
    Robert L. Barnett


    /s/ Fred L. Brengel                           Director
    Fred L. Brengel


    /s/ Paul A. Brunner                           Director
    Paul A. Brunner


    /s/ Robert A. Cornog                          Director
    Robert A. Cornog


    /s/ Willie D. Davis                           Director
    Willie D. Davis


    /s/ Southwood J. Morcott                      Director
    Southwood J. Morcott


    /s/ Martha R. Seger                           Director
    Martha R. Seger


    /s/ Donald Taylor                             Director
    Donald Taylor


                                                  Director
    Richard F. Teerlink


    /s/ Gilbert R. Whitaker,                      Director
         Jr.           
    Gilbert R. Whitaker, Jr.


    /s/ R. Douglas Ziegler                        Director
    R. Douglas Ziegler




   <PAGE>

        The Plan.  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of
   1933, as amended, the Benefits Administration Committee, which administers
   the Plan, has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its
   behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of
   Milwaukee, and the State of Wisconsin, on this 24th day of September,
   1997.

                            JOHNSON CONTROLS
                            NORTHERN NEW MEXICO, L.L.C. 
                            RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN




                            By:/s/ Jerome D. Okarma             
                                 Jerome D. Okarma



                            By: /s/ Darlene M. Rose              
                                 Darlene M. Rose



                            By:/s/ Carol S. Willenbrock          
                                 Carol S. Willenbrock

                            The foregoing persons are all members of the
                            Johnson Controls Northern New Mexico, L.L.C.
                            Benefits Administration Committee, which is the
                            administrator of the Johnson Controls Northern
                            New Mexico, L.L.C. Retirement Savings Plan.

   <PAGE>

                                  EXHIBIT INDEX

    Exhibit No.                           Exhibit

    (4.1)          Johnson Controls Northern New Mexico, L.L.C.
                   Retirement Savings Plan.

    (4.2)          Rights Agreement between the Registrant and Firstar
                   Trust Company (Rights Agent), as amended November
                   16, 1994 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.C
                   to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for
                   the fiscal year ended September 30, 1994 (Commission
                   File No. 1-5097)).

    (23.1)         Consent of Price Waterhouse LLP.

    (24)           Powers of Attorney relating to subsequent amendments
                   (included on the signature page to this Registration
                   Statement).
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Registration No. 333-_____

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C.  20549
                           ___________________________

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      Under
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                               __________________

                             JOHNSON CONTROLS, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

             Wisconsin                                          39-0380010
   (State or other jurisdiction                             (I.R.S. Employer 
   of incorporation or organization)                      Identification No.)

             5757 N. Green Bay Avenue
                   P. O. Box 591
               Milwaukee, Wisconsin                               53201
     (Address of principal executive offices)                   (Zip Code)

                  Johnson Controls Northern New Mexico, L.L.C.
                             Retirement Savings Plan
                            (Full title of the plan)
                              ____________________

                                 John P. Kennedy
                                    Secretary
                             Johnson Controls, Inc.
                            5757 N. Green Bay Avenue
                                  P. O. Box 591
                           Milwaukee, Wisconsin  53201
                                 (414) 228-1200
            (Name, address and telephone number, including area code,
                              of agent for service)
                           __________________________

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

                                    Proposed       Proposed
                                     Maximum       Maximum
       Title of        Amount       Offering      Aggregate      Amount of
     Securities to     to be          Price       Offering     Registration
     be Registered  Registered     Per Share        Price           Fee

    Common Stock,   250,000       $47.3125(1)    $11,828,125     $3,584.28
    $0.16-2/3 par   shares                             (1)
    value                                                           (2)
                                        (2)
    Common Stock    250,000                          (2)
    Purchase        rights
    Rights

   (1)      Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act of
            1933 solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee
            based on the average of the high and low prices for Johnson
            Controls, Inc. Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange
            consolidated reporting system on September 23, 1997.

   (2)      The value attributable to the Common Stock Purchase Rights is
            reflected in the market price of the Common Stock to which the
            Rights are attached.

                                                             

            In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of
   1933, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount of
   interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan
   described herein.
PART I 

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

             The document or documents containing the information specified
   in Part I are not required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange
   Commission (the "Commission") as part of this Form S-8 Registration
   Statement. 

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

   Item 3.   Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

             The following documents filed with the Commission by Johnson
   Controls, Inc. (the "Company") or by the Johnson Controls Northern New
   Mexico, L.L.C. Retirement Savings Plan (the "Plan") are hereby
   incorporated herein by reference:

             1.   The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for its fiscal
   year ended September 30, 1996.

             2.   The Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the
   quarters ended December 31, 1996, March 31, 1997 and June 30, 1997.

             3.   The Company's Current Reports on Form 8-K filed October 4,
   1996, December 10, 1996, March 10, 1997 (two reports) (which financial
   statements have been restated to give effect to the reclassification of
   the Plastic Container division as a discontinued operation and for the
   stock split distributed on March 31, 1997 to shareholders of record on
   March 7, 1997) and May 30, 1997.

             4.   The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in
   Item 1 of the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated April 23,
   1965, as superseded by the description contained in the Company's
   definitive proxy/registration statement (Form S-14 Registration No. 2-
   62382) incorporated by reference as Exhibit 1 to Current Report on Form 8-
   K, dated October 23, 1978, and in the Company's Registration Statement on
   Form S-14, dated April 18, 1985 (Registration No. 2-97136), and any
   amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

             5.   The description of the Company's Common Stock Purchase
   Rights contained in Item 1 of the Company's Registration Statement on Form
   8-A, filed November 30, 1994, and any amendments or reports filed for the
   purpose of updating such description.

             All documents subsequently filed by the Company or the Plan
   pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
   Act of 1934, as amended, after the date of filing of this Registration
   Statement and prior to such time as the Company files a post-effective
   amendment to this Registration Statement which indicates that all
   securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all
   securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by
   reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof from the
   date of filing of such documents.

   Item 4.   Description of Securities.

             Not applicable.

   Item 5.   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

             None.

   Item 6.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

             Pursuant to the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law and the
   Company's Bylaws, directors and officers of the Company are entitled to
   mandatory indemnification from the Company against certain liabilities 
   and expenses (i) to the extent such officers or directors are successful
   in the defense of a proceeding and (ii) in proceedings in which the 
   director or officer is not successful in the defense thereof, unless (in
   the latter case only) it is determined that the director or officer 
   breached or failed to perform his duties to the Company and such breach
   or failure constituted: (a) a willful failure to deal fairly with the 
   Company or its shareholders in connection with a matter in which the
   director or officer had a material conflict of interest; (b) a violation 
   of the criminal law, unless the director or officer had reasonable cause 
   to believe his or her conduct was lawful or had no reasonable cause to 
   believe his or her conduct was unlawful; (c) a transaction from which the 
   director or officer derived an improper personal. profit; or (d) willful 
   misconduct.  The Wisconsin Business Corporation Law specifically states 
   that it is the policy of Wisconsin to require or permit indemnification in
   connection with a proceeding involving securities regulation, as described
   therein, to the extent required or permitted as described above.  
   Additionally, under the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law, directors of 
   the Company are not subject to personal liability to the Company, its 
   shareholders or any person asserting rights on behalf thereof for certain 
   breaches or failures to perform any duty resulting solely from their status
   except in circumstances paralleling those in subparagraphs (a) through (d) 
   outlined above.  

             Expenses for the defense of any action for which indemnification
   may be available may be advanced by the Company under certain
   circumstances.

             The indemnification provided by the Wisconsin Business
   Corporation Law and the Company's By-Laws is not exclusive of any other
   rights to which a director or officer of the Company may be entitled.  The
   general effect of the foregoing provisions may be to reduce the
   circumstances which an officer or director may be required to bear the
   economic burden of the foregoing liabilities and expense.

             The Company maintains a liability insurance policy for its
   directors and officers as permitted by Wisconsin law which may extend to,
   among other things, liability arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as
   amended.

   Item 7.   Exemption from Registration Claimed.

             Not applicable.

   Item 8.   Exhibits.

             The exhibits filed herewith or incorporated herein by reference
   are set forth in the attached Exhibit Index.

             The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes to submit the Plan,
   as amended, to the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") in a timely manner and
   will make all changes required by the IRS in order to continue the
   qualification of the Plan under Section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code
   of 1986, as amended.

   Item 9.   Undertakings.

             (a)  The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

             (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or 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, as amended;

                  (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 information required to be included in a post-effective amendment
   by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or
   furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission by the Registrant
   pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
   1934, as amended, that are incorporated by reference in the Registration
   Statement.

             (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under
   the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, each such post-effective amendment
   shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the
   securities offered herein, 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 undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for
   purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as
   amended, each filing of the Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section
   13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
   that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be
   deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the securities
   offered herein, 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, as amended, 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 City of Milwaukee,
   State of Wisconsin, as of September 24, 1997.

                                 JOHNSON CONTROLS, INC.

                                 By:  /s/ John P. Kennedy
                                      John P. Kennedy
                                      Vice President

             Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
   Registration Statement has been signed below  as of September 24, 1997, by
   the following persons in the capacities indicated.  Each person whose
   signature appears below constitutes and appoints James H. Keyes, Stephen
   A. Roell and John P. Kennedy, and each of them individually, his or her
   attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and
   resubstitution for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in
   any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-
   effective amendments) to the Registration Statement and to file the same,
   with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith,
   with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-
   in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and
   perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
   connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she
   might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
   attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his or her
   substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
   hereof.

    /s/ James H. Keyes              Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and
    James H. Keyes                 Director (principal executive officer)

    /s/ Stephen A. Roell         Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
    Stephen A. Roell                 (principal financial and accounting
                                                  officer)

    /s/ William F. Andrews                        Director
    William F. Andrews

    /s/ Robert L. Barnett                         Director
    Robert L. Barnett

    /s/ Fred L. Brengel                           Director
    Fred L. Brengel

    /s/ Paul A. Brunner                           Director
    Paul A. Brunner

    /s/ Robert A. Cornog                          Director
    Robert A. Cornog

    /s/ Willie D. Davis                           Director
    Willie D. Davis

    /s/ Southwood J. Morcott                      Director
    Southwood J. Morcott

    /s/ Martha R. Seger                           Director
    Martha R. Seger

    /s/ Donald Taylor                             Director
    Donald Taylor

                                                  Director
    Richard F. Teerlink

    /s/ Gilbert R. Whitaker,                      Director
         Jr.           
    Gilbert R. Whitaker, Jr.

    /s/ R. Douglas Ziegler                        Director
    R. Douglas Ziegler
The Plan.  Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of
   1933, as amended, the Benefits Administration Committee, which administers
   the Plan, has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its
   behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of
   Milwaukee, and the State of Wisconsin, on this 24th day of September,
   1997.

                            JOHNSON CONTROLS
                            NORTHERN NEW MEXICO, L.L.C. 
                            RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN

                            By:/s/ Jerome D. Okarma             
                                 Jerome D. Okarma

                            By: /s/ Darlene M. Rose              
                                 Darlene M. Rose

                            By:/s/ Carol S. Willenbrock          
                                 Carol S. Willenbrock

                            The foregoing persons are all members of the
                            Johnson Controls Northern New Mexico, L.L.C.
                            Benefits Administration Committee, which is the
                            administrator of the Johnson Controls Northern
                            New Mexico, L.L.C. Retirement Savings Plan.
EXHIBIT INDEX

    Exhibit No.                           Exhibit

    (4.1)          Johnson Controls Northern New Mexico, L.L.C.
                   Retirement Savings Plan.

    (4.2)          Rights Agreement between the Registrant and Firstar
                   Trust Company (Rights Agent), as amended November
                   16, 1994 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.C
                   to the Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for
                   the fiscal year ended September 30, 1994 (Commission
                   File No. 1-5097)).

    (23.1)         Consent of Price Waterhouse LLP.

    (24)           Powers of Attorney relating to subsequent amendments
                   (included on the signature page to this Registration
                   Statement).