As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 1999

                                                 REGISTRATION NO. ______________

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                            GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

           New York                                     14-0689340
(State or other jurisdiction                (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
of incorporation or organization)

                              3135 Easton Turnpike
                          Fairfield, Connecticut 06431
          (Address of Principal Executive Offices, including Zip Code)

   VARIOUS EXISTING AND FUTURE GE OR AFFILIATE BENEFIT AND COMPENSATION PLANS
                           (Full titles of the Plans)

                                Robert E. Healing
                                Corporate Counsel
                              3135 Easton Turnpike
                          Fairfield, Connecticut 06431
                     (Name and address of agent for service)

                                 (203) 373-2243
          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

          Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to public:
  From time to time following the effectiveness of this registration statement

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                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

<CAPTION>
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TITLE OF                                                         PROPOSED MAXIMUM    PROPOSED MAXIMUM        AMOUNT OF
SECURITIES TO                                 AMOUNT TO BE       OFFERING PRICE      AGGREGATE OFFERING      REGISTRATION
BE REGISTERED      TITLE OF PLAN              REGISTERED<F1>     PER SHARE<F2>       PRICE<F2>               FEE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                                           <C>                     <C>            <C>                    <C>
Common Stock,      Various Existing and       2,200,000 shares        $104.50        $229,900,000.00        $63,912.20
$0.16 par value    Future GE or Affiliate
<F3>               Benefit and
                   Compensation Plans
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<FN>
<F1>  Plus such additional shares as may be issued by reason of stock splits,
      stock dividends or similar transactions.

<F2>  Calculated pursuant to Rule 457(c), based on the average of the high and
      low prices for the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange Composite
      Tape for March 8, 1999.

<F3>  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 certain of the employee
      benefit plans registered hereby.
</FN>
</TABLE>



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                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

General Electric Company (the "Company") by this reference hereby incorporates
into this Registration Statement the following documents filed by the Company:

1.    The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
      1997.

2.    The Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March
      31, June 30, and September 30, 1998.

3.    The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the
      Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-30845), including any
      amendment filed for the purpose of updating such description.

In addition, all documents filed by the Company pursuant to pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
securities offered 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 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

Section 6 of the Company's Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, provides as
follows:

         A person who is or was a director of the corporation shall have no
         personal liability to the corporation or its shareholders for damages
         for any breach of duty in such capacity except that the foregoing shall
         not eliminate or limit liability where such liability is imposed under
         the Business Corporation Law of the State of New York.

Article XI of the Company's By-laws, as amended, provides as follows:

A.    The Company shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as
      the same exists or may hereafter be in effect, indemnify any person who is
      or was or has agreed to become a director or officer of the Company and
      who is or was made or threatened to be made a party to or involved in any
      threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether
      civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, including an action by
      or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor and an
      action by or in the right of any other corporation, of any type or kind,
      domestic or foreign, or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee
      benefit plan or other enterprise, which such person is serving, has served
      or has agreed to serve in any capacity at the request of the Company, by
      reason of the fact that he or she is or was or has agreed to become a
      director or officer of the Company, or is or was serving or has agreed to
      serve such other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee
      benefit plan or other enterprise in any capacity, against judgments,
      fines, amounts paid or to be paid in settlement, taxes or penalties, and
      costs, charges and expenses, including attorney's fees, incurred in
      connection with such action or proceeding or any appeal therein; provided,
      however, that no indemnification shall be provided to any such person if a
      judgment or other final adjudication adverse to the director or officer
      establishes that (i) his or her acts were committed in bad faith or were
      the result of active and deliberate dishonesty and, in either case, were
      material to the cause of action so adjudicated, or (ii) he or she
      personally gained in fact a financial profit or other advantage to which
      he or she was not legally entitled. The benefits of this Paragraph a shall
      extend to the heirs and legal representatives of any person entitled to
      indemnification under this paragraph.


B.    The Company may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the board
      of Directors, or by a committee comprised of members of the Board or
      members of management as the Board may designate for such purpose, provide
      indemnification to employees or agents of the Company who are not officers
      or directors of the Company with such scope and effect as determined by
      the Board, or such committee.

C.    The Company may indemnify any person to whom the Company is permitted by
      applicable law to provide indemnification or the advancement of expenses,
      whether pursuant to rights granted pursuant to, or provided by, the New
      York Business Corporation Law or other rights created by (i) a resolution
      of shareholders, (ii) a resolution of directors, or (iii) an agreement
      providing for such indemnification, it being expressly intended that these

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      By-laws authorize the creation of other rights in any such manner. The
      right to be indemnified and to the reimbursement or advancement of
      expenses incurred in defending a proceeding in advance of its final
      disposition authorized by this Paragraph C shall not be exclusive of any
      other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any
      statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, by-laws,
      agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.


D.    The right to indemnification conferred by Paragraph A shall, and any
      indemnification extended under Paragraph B or Paragraph C may, be
      retroactive to events occurring prior to the adoption of this Article XI,
      to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

E.    This Article XI may be amended, modified or repealed either by action of
      the Board of Directors of the Company or by the vote of the shareholders.

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS.

See Exhibit Index.

The registrant will submit or has submitted the qualified plans registered
hereby, and any amendments thereto, to the Internal Revenue Service in a timely
manner and has made or will make all changes required by the IRS in order to
qualify the plans.

ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS.

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;

      (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or event 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 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 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.

         The undersigned 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 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.

         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
as 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

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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
the requirements for filing on Form S-8, and has duly caused this Registration
Statement for Various Existing and Future GE or Affiliate Benefit and
Compensation Plans on Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, on
March 15, 1999.

                             GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

                             By:  Philip D. Ameen
                                  Vice President & Comptroller

         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 dates indicated.

Signature                    Title                                   Date
---------                    -----                                   ----

*John F. Welch, Jr.          Chairman of the Board of Directors
                             and Chief Executive Officer
                             Principal Executive Officer

*Keith S. Sherin             Senior Vice President-Finance
                             Principal Financial Officer

Philip D. Ameen              Vice President and Comptroller
                             Principal Accounting Officer         March 15, 1999



*Silas S. Cathcart           Director
*Dennis D. Dammerman         Director
*Claudio X. Gonzalez         Director
*Andrea Jung                 Director
*Eugene F. Murphy            Director
*John D. Opie                Director
*Roger S. Penske             Director
*Andrew C. Sigler            Director
*Douglas A. Warner III       Director

A Majority of the Board of Directors





*By: Philip D. Ameen, Attorney-in-Fact

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                                   THE PLANS.

GE Industrial Systems Solutions 401(k) Savings Plan

       Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
the trustees (or other persons who administer the plans) have duly caused this
registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the city of Atlanta, State of Georgia, on March 2, 1999.





                        By: /s/ Don Dancer, Legal Counsel

                                  EXHIBIT INDEX


Exhibit 4:     Restated Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws of the
               Registrant, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 to the
               Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K dated April 28, 1997.

Exhibit 5      Opinion of Robert E. Healing*

Exhibit 23(a): Consent of KPMG LLP*

Exhibit 23(b): Consent of Robert E. Healing (included in Exhibit 5)*

Exhibit 24(a): Power of Attorney of certain Officers and Directors of GE
               relating to Affiliate Benefit Plans*

Exhibit 24(b): Power of Attorney of certain Officers and Directors of GE
               relating to Directors' Compensation Plan*

Exhibit 24(c): Power of Attorney of Keith S. Sherin*

--------------------------------
* Filed electronically herewith.
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 15, 1999

                                                 REGISTRATION NO. ______________

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                            GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

           New York                                     14-0689340
(State or other jurisdiction                (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
of incorporation or organization)

                              3135 Easton Turnpike
                          Fairfield, Connecticut 06431
          (Address of Principal Executive Offices, including Zip Code)

   VARIOUS EXISTING AND FUTURE GE OR AFFILIATE BENEFIT AND COMPENSATION PLANS
                           (Full titles of the Plans)

                                Robert E. Healing
                                Corporate Counsel
                              3135 Easton Turnpike
                          Fairfield, Connecticut 06431
                     (Name and address of agent for service)

                                 (203) 373-2243
          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

          Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to public:
  From time to time following the effectiveness of this registration statement

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TITLE OF                                                         PROPOSED MAXIMUM    PROPOSED MAXIMUM        AMOUNT OF
SECURITIES TO                                 AMOUNT TO BE       OFFERING PRICE      AGGREGATE OFFERING      REGISTRATION
BE REGISTERED      TITLE OF PLAN              REGISTERED
PER SHARE
PRICE
FEE
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock,      Various Existing and       2,200,000 shares        $104.50        $229,900,000.00        $63,912.20
$0.16 par value    Future GE or Affiliate
Benefit and
                   Compensation Plans
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Plus such additional shares as may be issued by reason of stock splits,
      stock dividends or similar transactions.
Calculated pursuant to Rule 457(c), based on the average of the high and
      low prices for the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange Composite
      Tape for March 8, 1999.
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 certain of the employee
      benefit plans registered hereby.
PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

General Electric Company (the "Company") by this reference hereby incorporates
into this Registration Statement the following documents filed by the Company:

1.    The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
      1997.

2.    The Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March
      31, June 30, and September 30, 1998.

3.    The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the
      Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-30845), including any
      amendment filed for the purpose of updating such description.

In addition, all documents filed by the Company pursuant to pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all
securities offered 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 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

Section 6 of the Company's Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, provides as
follows:

         A person who is or was a director of the corporation shall have no
         personal liability to the corporation or its shareholders for damages
         for any breach of duty in such capacity except that the foregoing shall
         not eliminate or limit liability where such liability is imposed under
         the Business Corporation Law of the State of New York.

Article XI of the Company's By-laws, as amended, provides as follows:

A.    The Company shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as
      the same exists or may hereafter be in effect, indemnify any person who is
      or was or has agreed to become a director or officer of the Company and
      who is or was made or threatened to be made a party to or involved in any
      threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether
      civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, including an action by
      or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor and an
      action by or in the right of any other corporation, of any type or kind,
      domestic or foreign, or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee
      benefit plan or other enterprise, which such person is serving, has served
      or has agreed to serve in any capacity at the request of the Company, by
      reason of the fact that he or she is or was or has agreed to become a
      director or officer of the Company, or is or was serving or has agreed to
      serve such other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee
      benefit plan or other enterprise in any capacity, against judgments,
      fines, amounts paid or to be paid in settlement, taxes or penalties, and
      costs, charges and expenses, including attorney's fees, incurred in
      connection with such action or proceeding or any appeal therein; provided,
      however, that no indemnification shall be provided to any such person if a
      judgment or other final adjudication adverse to the director or officer
      establishes that (i) his or her acts were committed in bad faith or were
      the result of active and deliberate dishonesty and, in either case, were
      material to the cause of action so adjudicated, or (ii) he or she
      personally gained in fact a financial profit or other advantage to which
      he or she was not legally entitled. The benefits of this Paragraph a shall
      extend to the heirs and legal representatives of any person entitled to
      indemnification under this paragraph.

B.    The Company may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the board
      of Directors, or by a committee comprised of members of the Board or
      members of management as the Board may designate for such purpose, provide
      indemnification to employees or agents of the Company who are not officers
      or directors of the Company with such scope and effect as determined by
      the Board, or such committee.

C.    The Company may indemnify any person to whom the Company is permitted by
      applicable law to provide indemnification or the advancement of expenses,
      whether pursuant to rights granted pursuant to, or provided by, the New
      York Business Corporation Law or other rights created by (i) a resolution
      of shareholders, (ii) a resolution of directors, or (iii) an agreement
      providing for such indemnification, it being expressly intended that these
By-laws authorize the creation of other rights in any such manner. The
      right to be indemnified and to the reimbursement or advancement of
      expenses incurred in defending a proceeding in advance of its final
      disposition authorized by this Paragraph C shall not be exclusive of any
      other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any
      statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, by-laws,
      agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

D.    The right to indemnification conferred by Paragraph A shall, and any
      indemnification extended under Paragraph B or Paragraph C may, be
      retroactive to events occurring prior to the adoption of this Article XI,
      to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

E.    This Article XI may be amended, modified or repealed either by action of
      the Board of Directors of the Company or by the vote of the shareholders.

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS.

See Exhibit Index.

The registrant will submit or has submitted the qualified plans registered
hereby, and any amendments thereto, to the Internal Revenue Service in a timely
manner and has made or will make all changes required by the IRS in order to
qualify the plans.

ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS.

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;

      (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or event 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 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 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.

         The undersigned 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 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.

         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
as 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
the requirements for filing on Form S-8, and has duly caused this Registration
Statement for Various Existing and Future GE or Affiliate Benefit and
Compensation Plans on Form S-8 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, on
March 15, 1999.

                             GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

                             By:  Philip D. Ameen
                                  Vice President & Comptroller

         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 dates indicated.

Signature                    Title                                   Date
---------                    -----                                   ----

*John F. Welch, Jr.          Chairman of the Board of Directors
                             and Chief Executive Officer
                             Principal Executive Officer

*Keith S. Sherin             Senior Vice President-Finance
                             Principal Financial Officer

Philip D. Ameen              Vice President and Comptroller
                             Principal Accounting Officer         March 15, 1999

*Silas S. Cathcart           Director
*Dennis D. Dammerman         Director
*Claudio X. Gonzalez         Director
*Andrea Jung                 Director
*Eugene F. Murphy            Director
*John D. Opie                Director
*Roger S. Penske             Director
*Andrew C. Sigler            Director
*Douglas A. Warner III       Director

A Majority of the Board of Directors

*By: Philip D. Ameen, Attorney-in-Fact
THE PLANS.

GE Industrial Systems Solutions 401(k) Savings Plan

       Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
the trustees (or other persons who administer the plans) have duly caused this
registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the city of Atlanta, State of Georgia, on March 2, 1999.

                        By: /s/ Don Dancer, Legal Counsel

                                  EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit 4:     Restated Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws of the
               Registrant, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4 to the
               Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K dated April 28, 1997.

Exhibit 5      Opinion of Robert E. Healing*

Exhibit 23(a): Consent of KPMG LLP*

Exhibit 23(b): Consent of Robert E. Healing (included in Exhibit 5)*

Exhibit 24(a): Power of Attorney of certain Officers and Directors of GE
               relating to Affiliate Benefit Plans*

Exhibit 24(b): Power of Attorney of certain Officers and Directors of GE
               relating to Directors' Compensation Plan*

Exhibit 24(c): Power of Attorney of Keith S. Sherin*

--------------------------------
* Filed electronically herewith.