SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549



                                    FORM S-8
             Registration Statement Under the Securities Act of 1933


                               TRIMAS CORPORATION
             (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)


            Delaware                                   38-2687639
(state or other jurisdiction                   (IRS Employer
      of incorporation)                        Identification No.)


             315 East Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, Michigan  48108
               (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)



                       1995 LONG TERM STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
                            (Full Title of the Plan)


                                Brian P. Campbell
                                    President
                               TriMas Corporation
                           315 East Eisenhower Parkway
                           Ann Arbor, Michigan  48108
                     (Name and Address of Agent for Service)


                                 (313) 747-7025
           (Telephone no., including area code, of agent for service)



                                 with a copy to:


                                 John R. Leekley
                                Corporate Counsel
                               TriMas Corporation
                           315 East Eisenhower Parkway
                           Ann Arbor, Michigan  48108
                                  (313)747-7025
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                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
                                                                           

                                     Proposed   Proposed          
                                     Maximum    Maximum     Amount
Title of                             Offering   Aggregate   of
Securities to       Amount to        Price Per  Offering    Registration
be Registered       be Registered    Unit       Price       Fee
                                                                               
Common Stock            2,000,000         *         $45,625,000   $15,732.76
(Par Value $.01
Per Share)                                                        
                                                                           

      *Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee
pursuant to Rule 457(h) on the basis of the average of the high and low prices
($22.8125) of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange - Composite Tape
on May 8, 1995 as reported in The Wall Street Journal.


                                     Part II
                                        

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT          

Item 3.   Incorporation of Documents by Reference.   

      The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "Commission") are hereby incorporated herein by reference:

      (a)   TriMas Corporation's (the "Company's")  Annual  Report on Form 10-K
for the year ended December 31, 1994.

      (b)   The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
March 31, 1995.
      
      (c)   The description of the Company's Common Stock, par value $.01 per
share, which is contained in an Amendment on Form 8, dated December 23, 1992,
amending the Company's Registration Statement on Form 10 dated November 7, 1988.

      All reports and documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a),
13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "1934 Act") 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 

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deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the
date of filing of such documents.  Any statements contained in a document
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes hereof to the extent that a statement contained herein (or in any
other subsequently filed document which is also incorporated by reference
herein) modifies or supersedes such statement.  Any statement so modified or
superseded shall not be deemed to constitute a part hereof except as so modified
or superseded.

Item 4.   Description of Securities.                                            
                            
      Not applicable.


Item 5.   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

      Not applicable.


Item 6.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

      Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware empowers the
Company to indemnify, subject to the standards therein prescribed, 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 Company or is or was serving as such with respect to another corporation or
other entity at the request of the Company.  Article 13 of the Company's
Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that each person who was or is
made a party to (or is threatened to be made a party to) or is otherwise
involved in any action, suit or proceeding by reason of the fact that such
person is or was a director, officer or employee of the Company shall be
indemnified and held harmless by the Company to the fullest extent authorized by
the General Corporation Law of Delaware against all expenses, liability and loss
(including without limitation attorneys' fees, judgements, fines and amounts
paid in settlement) reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith. 
The rights conferred by Article 13 are contractual rights and include the right
to be paid by the Company the expenses incurred in defending such action, suit
or proceeding in advance of the final disposition thereof.

      Article 12 of the Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides
that the Company's directors will not be personally liable to the Company or its
stockholders for monetary damages resulting from breaches of their fiduciary
duty as directors except (a) for any breach of the duty of loyalty to the
Company or its stockholders, (b) for acts or omissions not in good faith or
which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (c) under
Section 174 of the General Corporation 

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Law of Delaware, which makes directors liable for unlawful dividends or unlawful
stock repurchases or redemptions, or (d) for transactions from which directors
derive improper personal benefit.

      The Company's directors and officers are covered by insurance policies
indemnifying them against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under
the Federal securities laws (other than liability under Section 16(b) of the
1934 Act), which might be incurred by them in such capacity.
      

Item 7.   Exemption from Registration Claimed.

      Not applicable.


Item 8.   Exhibits.


Exhibit                             Description

4.a               Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company.  
                  Incorporated  by reference to the Exhibits filed with the
                  Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
                  December 31, 1993.

4.b               Bylaws of the Company, as amended.  Incorporated by reference
                  to the Exhibits filed with the Company's Quarterly Report on
                  Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1993.

5                 Opinion of John R. Leekley.

23.a              Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. relating to the financial
                  statements of the Company.

23.b              Consent of John R. Leekley which is included as part of
                  Exhibit 5.

24                Power of Attorney, which appears in Part II of this
                  Registration Statement.

99                TriMas Corporation 1995 Long Term Stock Incentive Plan.
                                                      
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Item 9.   Undertakings.


1.    The Company hereby undertakes:

      (a)   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 (the "1933 Act");

      (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;
and

      (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)(i) and (a)(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
Commission by the Company pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act that
are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

      (b)   That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 1933
Act, 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.

      (c)   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.

2.    The Company hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the 1933 Act, each filing of the Company's annual report
pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the 1934 Act 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.

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3.    Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 1933 Act may
be permitted to Directors, officers and controlling persons of the Company
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Company has been advised
that in the opinion of the  Commission such indemnification is against public
policy as expressed in the 1933 Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the
event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the
payment by the Company of expenses incurred or paid by a Director, officer or
controlling person of the Company 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 Company 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 1933 Act and
will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.







                                   SIGNATURES


      Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Company
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 Ann Arbor and the State of Michigan on this 10th day
of May, 1995.

                                          TRIMAS CORPORATION




                                          By  /S/ Brian P. Campbell             
                                              Brian P. Campbell
                                              President



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                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

      KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears
below constitutes and appoints Brian P. Campbell and Peter C. DeChants, and each
of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power
of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in
any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this 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, as fully to all intents
and purposes as he might or would do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them or his 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


Principal Executive Officer:
                                    

 /S/  RICHARD A. MANOOGIAN    Chairman of the Board   May 10, 1995
Richard A. Manoogian          and Director



Principal Financial Officer:


 /S/  WILLIAM E. MEYERS       Vice President-         May 10, 1995
William E. Meyers             Controller              


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Principal Accounting Officer:



 /S/ WILLIAM E. MEYERS        Vice President -      May 10, 1995
William E. Meyers                   Controller



 /S/  BRIAN P. CAMPBELL       President and         May 10, 1995
Brian P. Campbell             Director



 /S/  HERBERT S. AMSTER       Director              May 10, 1995
Herbert S. Amster



 /S/  EUGENE A. GARGARO, JR.   Director             May 10, 1995
Eugene A. Gargaro, Jr.



 /S/  JOHN A. MORGAN           Director             May 10, 1995
John A. Morgan



 /S/  HELMUT F. STERN          Director             May 10, 1995
Helmut F. Stern

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                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS


                                                                              
Exhibit
  No.                          Description


4.a               Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
                  Company.  Incorporated  by reference to the
                  Exhibits filed with the Company's Annual Report on
                  Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1993.

4.b               Bylaws of the Company, as amended.  Incorporated
                  by reference to the Exhibits filed with the
                  Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
                  quarter ended June 30, 1993.

5                 Opinion of John R. Leekley.

23.a              Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. relating to
                  the financial statements of the Company.

23.b              Consent of John R. Leekley which is included as
                  part of Exhibit 5.

24                Power of Attorney, which appears in Part II of
                  this Registration Statement.

99                TriMas Corporation 1995 Long Term Stock
                  Incentive Plan.
 

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8
             Registration Statement Under the Securities Act of 1933

                               TRIMAS CORPORATION
             (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

            Delaware                                   38-2687639
(state or other jurisdiction                   (IRS Employer
      of incorporation)                        Identification No.)

             315 East Eisenhower Parkway, Ann Arbor, Michigan  48108
               (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

                       1995 LONG TERM STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
                            (Full Title of the Plan)

                                Brian P. Campbell
                                    President
                               TriMas Corporation
                           315 East Eisenhower Parkway
                           Ann Arbor, Michigan  48108
                     (Name and Address of Agent for Service)

                                 (313) 747-7025
           (Telephone no., including area code, of agent for service)

                                 with a copy to:

                                 John R. Leekley
                                Corporate Counsel
                               TriMas Corporation
                           315 East Eisenhower Parkway
                           Ann Arbor, Michigan  48108
                                  (313)747-7025
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
                                                                           

                                     Proposed   Proposed          
                                     Maximum    Maximum     Amount
Title of                             Offering   Aggregate   of
Securities to       Amount to        Price Per  Offering    Registration
be Registered       be Registered    Unit       Price       Fee
                                                                               
Common Stock            2,000,000         *         $45,625,000   $15,732.76
(Par Value $.01
Per Share)                                                        
                                                                           

      *Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the registration fee
pursuant to Rule 457(h) on the basis of the average of the high and low prices
($22.8125) of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange - Composite Tape
on May 8, 1995 as reported in The Wall Street Journal.

                                     Part II
                                        

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT          

Item 3.   Incorporation of Documents by Reference.   

      The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "Commission") are hereby incorporated herein by reference:

      (a)   TriMas Corporation's (the "Company's")  Annual  Report on Form 10-K
for the year ended December 31, 1994.

      (b)   The Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended
March 31, 1995.
      
      (c)   The description of the Company's Common Stock, par value $.01 per
share, which is contained in an Amendment on Form 8, dated December 23, 1992,
amending the Company's Registration Statement on Form 10 dated November 7, 1988.

      All reports and documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a),
13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "1934 Act") 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 

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deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the
date of filing of such documents.  Any statements contained in a document
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes hereof to the extent that a statement contained herein (or in any
other subsequently filed document which is also incorporated by reference
herein) modifies or supersedes such statement.  Any statement so modified or
superseded shall not be deemed to constitute a part hereof except as so modified
or superseded.

Item 4.   Description of Securities.                                            
                            
      Not applicable.

Item 5.   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

      Not applicable.

Item 6.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

      Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware empowers the
Company to indemnify, subject to the standards therein prescribed, 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 Company or is or was serving as such with respect to another corporation or
other entity at the request of the Company.  Article 13 of the Company's
Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that each person who was or is
made a party to (or is threatened to be made a party to) or is otherwise
involved in any action, suit or proceeding by reason of the fact that such
person is or was a director, officer or employee of the Company shall be
indemnified and held harmless by the Company to the fullest extent authorized by
the General Corporation Law of Delaware against all expenses, liability and loss
(including without limitation attorneys' fees, judgements, fines and amounts
paid in settlement) reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith. 
The rights conferred by Article 13 are contractual rights and include the right
to be paid by the Company the expenses incurred in defending such action, suit
or proceeding in advance of the final disposition thereof.

      Article 12 of the Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides
that the Company's directors will not be personally liable to the Company or its
stockholders for monetary damages resulting from breaches of their fiduciary
duty as directors except (a) for any breach of the duty of loyalty to the
Company or its stockholders, (b) for acts or omissions not in good faith or
which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (c) under
Section 174 of the General Corporation 

                                       -3-
Law of Delaware, which makes directors liable for unlawful dividends or unlawful
stock repurchases or redemptions, or (d) for transactions from which directors
derive improper personal benefit.

      The Company's directors and officers are covered by insurance policies
indemnifying them against certain civil liabilities, including liabilities under
the Federal securities laws (other than liability under Section 16(b) of the
1934 Act), which might be incurred by them in such capacity.
      

Item 7.   Exemption from Registration Claimed.

      Not applicable.

Item 8.   Exhibits.

Exhibit                             Description

4.a               Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company.  
                  Incorporated  by reference to the Exhibits filed with the
                  Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
                  December 31, 1993.

4.b               Bylaws of the Company, as amended.  Incorporated by reference
                  to the Exhibits filed with the Company's Quarterly Report on
                  Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1993.

5                 Opinion of John R. Leekley.

23.a              Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. relating to the financial
                  statements of the Company.

23.b              Consent of John R. Leekley which is included as part of
                  Exhibit 5.

24                Power of Attorney, which appears in Part II of this
                  Registration Statement.

99                TriMas Corporation 1995 Long Term Stock Incentive Plan.
                                                      
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Item 9.   Undertakings.

1.    The Company hereby undertakes:

      (a)   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 (the "1933 Act");

      (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;
and

      (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)(i) and (a)(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
Commission by the Company pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act that
are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

      (b)   That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 1933
Act, 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.

      (c)   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.

2.    The Company hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the 1933 Act, each filing of the Company's annual report
pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the 1934 Act 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.

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3.    Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 1933 Act may
be permitted to Directors, officers and controlling persons of the Company
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Company has been advised
that in the opinion of the  Commission such indemnification is against public
policy as expressed in the 1933 Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the
event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the
payment by the Company of expenses incurred or paid by a Director, officer or
controlling person of the Company 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 Company 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 1933 Act and
will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                                   SIGNATURES

      Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Company
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 Ann Arbor and the State of Michigan on this 10th day
of May, 1995.

                                          TRIMAS CORPORATION

                                          By  /S/ Brian P. Campbell             
                                              Brian P. Campbell
                                              President

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

      KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears
below constitutes and appoints Brian P. Campbell and Peter C. DeChants, and each
of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power
of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in
any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to this 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, as fully to all intents
and purposes as he might or would do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming
all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them or his 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

Principal Executive Officer:
                                    

 /S/  RICHARD A. MANOOGIAN    Chairman of the Board   May 10, 1995
Richard A. Manoogian          and Director

Principal Financial Officer:

 /S/  WILLIAM E. MEYERS       Vice President-         May 10, 1995
William E. Meyers             Controller              

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Principal Accounting Officer:

 /S/ WILLIAM E. MEYERS        Vice President -      May 10, 1995
William E. Meyers                   Controller

 /S/  BRIAN P. CAMPBELL       President and         May 10, 1995
Brian P. Campbell             Director

 /S/  HERBERT S. AMSTER       Director              May 10, 1995
Herbert S. Amster

 /S/  EUGENE A. GARGARO, JR.   Director             May 10, 1995
Eugene A. Gargaro, Jr.

 /S/  JOHN A. MORGAN           Director             May 10, 1995
John A. Morgan

 /S/  HELMUT F. STERN          Director             May 10, 1995
Helmut F. Stern

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

                                                                              
Exhibit
  No.                          Description

4.a               Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
                  Company.  Incorporated  by reference to the
                  Exhibits filed with the Company's Annual Report on
                  Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1993.

4.b               Bylaws of the Company, as amended.  Incorporated
                  by reference to the Exhibits filed with the
                  Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
                  quarter ended June 30, 1993.

5                 Opinion of John R. Leekley.

23.a              Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. relating to
                  the financial statements of the Company.

23.b              Consent of John R. Leekley which is included as
                  part of Exhibit 5.

24                Power of Attorney, which appears in Part II of
                  this Registration Statement.

99                TriMas Corporation 1995 Long Term Stock
                  Incentive Plan.
 

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