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  <p align="center">As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
  October 27, 2003<br>
  Registration No.</p>
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  <p align="center">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION<br>
  </font></b><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="3">Washington, D.C. 20549</p>
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<p align="center">FORM S-8<br>
</font></b><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="3">REGISTRATION STATEMENT<br>
Under<br>
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</p>
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<p align="center">UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION<br>
</font></b><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="1">(Exact name of issuer as specified in its
charter)</p>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER"><font face="Arial" size="2">Delaware<br>
        </font><font face="Arial" size="1">(State or other
        jurisdiction of<br>
        incorporation or
        organization)</font></td>
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        <p ALIGN="CENTER"><font face="Arial" size="2">06-0570975<br>
        </font><font face="Arial" size="1">(I.R.S. Employer<br>
        Identification No.)</font></td>
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<p align="center">One Financial Plaza, Hartford, Connecticut 06101<br>
</font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="1">(Address of principal executive offices,
including Zip Code)</p>
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<p align="center">UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION EMPLOYEE<br>
SAVINGS PLAN<br>
</font></b><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="1">(Full title of the Plan)</p>
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<p align="center">WILLIAM H. TRACHSEL, Esq.<br>
Secretary<br>
One Financial Plaza<br>
Hartford, Connecticut 06101<br>
(860) 728-7000<br>
</font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="1">(Name, address and telephone number of agent
for service)</p>
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<p align="center">CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</p>
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      <p ALIGN="CENTER">Title of Securities<br>
      to be Registered</font></td>
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      <p ALIGN="CENTER">Amount to be<br>
      Registered</font></td>
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      <p ALIGN="CENTER">Proposed<br>
      Maximum<br>
      Offering Price<br>
      Per Share (2)</font></td>
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      <p ALIGN="CENTER">Proposed<br>
      Maximum<br>
      Aggregate<br>
      Offering Price</font></td>
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      <p ALIGN="CENTER">Amount of<br>
      Registration Fee</font></td>
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    <td WIDTH="18%" VALIGN="TOP"><font face="Arial" size="1">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td WIDTH="16%" VALIGN="TOP"><font face="Arial" size="1">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td WIDTH="19%" VALIGN="TOP"><font face="Arial" size="1">&nbsp;</font></td>
    <td WIDTH="19%" VALIGN="TOP"><font face="Arial" size="1">&nbsp;</font></td>
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      <p ALIGN="CENTER">Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share (1)</font></td>
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      <p ALIGN="CENTER">26,000,000<br>
      shares (3)</font></td>
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      <p ALIGN="CENTER">$16.25</font></td>
    <td WIDTH="19%" VALIGN="bottom"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2">
      <p ALIGN="CENTER">$422,500,000</font></td>
    <td WIDTH="19%" VALIGN="bottom"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2">
      <p ALIGN="CENTER">$34,180.25</font></td>
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    <td width="4%" valign="top"><sup>(1)</sup></td>
    <td width="96%"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="1">Shares to be issued upon the
      conversion of 6,500,000 shares of Series A ESOP Convertible Preferred
      Stock held by the Employee Savings Plan Trustee on behalf of the United
      Technologies Corporation Employee Stock Ownership Plan, a component of the
      United Technologies Corporation Employee Savings Plan.</font></td>
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    <td width="4%" valign="top"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="1"><sup>(2)</sup></font></td>
    <td width="96%"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="1">Based on a conversion price of
      $16.25 per share of Common Stock.</font></td>
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    <td width="4%" valign="top"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="1"><sup>(3)</sup></font></td>
    <td width="96%"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="1">Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under
      the 1933 Act, the number of shares registered hereunder includes such
      additional number of shares of Common Stock as are required to prevent
      dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar
      transaction that results in an increase in the number of outstanding
      shares of Common Stock.</font></td>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The United Technologies Corporation Employee Savings Plan
(the &quot;Plan&quot;) provides certain eligible employees of United
Technologies Corporation (the &quot;Corporation&quot;) and its subsidiaries and
affiliates with the opportunity to participate in a payroll deduction
tax-advantaged savings program. The Corporation provides the additional benefit
of matching employer contributions for those eligible employees who elect to
participate in the Plan. The Employee Stock Ownership Plan (the
&quot;ESOP&quot;) is an integral component of the Plan, which provides for the
funding of employer matching contributions in company stock, currently in the
form of Series A ESOP Convertible Preferred Stock, $1.00 par value (the
&quot;ESOP Preferred Stock&quot;). This Registration Statement registers the
shares of the Corporation's common stock, $1.00 par value, per share
("Common Stock") issuable upon the conversion of the ESOP Preferred
Stock.</p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">PART II</font></p>
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<p>ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE</p>
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<p>The following documents are hereby incorporated by reference:</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (1) the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q of the Corporation
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &quot;Commission&quot;)
for the quarters ended March 31, 2003, June 30, 2003 and September 30, 2003 and
the Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Corporation filed with the Commission for
the year ended December 31, 2002;</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (2) all other reports filed by the Corporation with the
Commission pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the &quot;Exchange Act&quot;), since the end of the
period covered by the recent Annual Report on Form 10-K referred to in (1)
above;</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (3) the description of the shares of the Common Stock of
the Corporation contained in the Corporation's Registration Statement on Form
S-3, dated March 11, 2003, filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 12 of
the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report subsequently filed for the
purpose of updating that description; and</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; All documents subsequently filed by the Corporation or the
Plan pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, 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. Any
statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of
this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or
in any subsequently filed document which also is deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so
modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded,
to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.</p>
<p><b>ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES</p>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The securities registered hereby are shares of the
Corporation's Common Stock, issuable upon the conversion of shares of the
Corporation's ESOP Preferred Stock.</p>
<b>
<p>ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL</p>
</b>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The legality of the securities offered pursuant to this
Registration Statement has been passed on by Richard M. Kaplan, Esq. Mr. Kaplan,
Associate General Counsel of the Corporation, is a shareowner of Common Stock.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The financial statements incorporated in this Registration
Statement by reference to the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters
ended March 31, 2003, June 30, 2003 and September 30, 2003 and the Annual Report
on Form 10-K of the Corporation for the year ended December 31, 2002 have been
so incorporated in reliance on the reports of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,
independent auditors, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing
and accounting.</p>
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<p>ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS</p>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pursuant to Section 102 of the General Corporation Law of
Delaware, the Corporation has adopted a provision in its Certificate of
Incorporation eliminating the personal liability of its directors for monetary
damages to the Corporation and its stockholders for any breach of their
fiduciary duties as directors of the Corporation, except for their liability due
to (1) breach of loyalty to the Corporation, (2) acts or omissions not in good
faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (3)
any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit or
(4) any payment of unlawful dividends or an unlawful stock repurchase or
redemption.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law
permits a Delaware corporation to indemnify any person who is or was a party to
any actual or threatened legal action, whether criminal, civil, administrative
or investigative because of his or her service as an officer, director or agent
of the corporation against expenses, judgments, fines and settlement payments
reasonably and actually incurred by him or her in connection with such
proceeding, if he acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably
believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and,
with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to
believe was unlawful, except that, with respect to any legal action by or in the
right of the corporation itself, an officer, director or agent of the
corporation only is entitled to indemnification for expenses actually and
reasonably incurred. Section 7.5 of the Corporation's Bylaws provides that the
Corporation shall indemnify its officers, directors, employees, fiduciaries and
agents (and their heirs and legal representatives) to the full extent permitted
by Delaware law.</p>
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<p>ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED</p>
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<p>Not applicable</font></p>
<p><b><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2">ITEM 8. EXHIBITS</p>
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<p>See Exhibit Index</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; United Technologies Corporation previously received a
determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service that the Plan is a
qualified plan under the Internal Revenue Code and has submitted a request to
the Internal Revenue Service for a determination that the Plan, as amended,
continues to comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The
Corporation hereby undertakes to submit any amendments to the Plan to the
Internal Revenue Service in a timely manner and will make all changes required
under the Internal Revenue Code to maintain the tax qualification of the Plan.</p>
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<p>ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS</p>
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<p>The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales
are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <sup>(i)</sup> to include any prospectus required by
Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <sup>(ii)</sup> 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</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <sup>(iii)</sup> 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:</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (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 Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference
in the Registration Statement.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <sup>(2)</sup> That, for the purpose of determining any
liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment
shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <sup>(3)</sup> 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.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under
the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and
controlling persons of the registrant, 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 of 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.</p>
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SIGNATURES
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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 Hartford, and State of Connecticut, on this 27<sup>th</sup>
day
of October, 2003.
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  <td width="100%" colspan="2"><b><font FACE="Arial" size="2">UNITED
    TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
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By
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<td width="95%"><font FACE="Arial" size="2">(Stephen F. Page, Vice Chairman and<br>
  &nbsp; Chief Financial Officer)
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><b><font face="Arial" size="2"> Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, the Registration Statement has been signed below by the
following persons in the capacities indicated on this 27<sup>th</sup> day of October, 2003.</p>
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      Chairman, Director and</b></font></td>
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      GEORGE DAVID</b></font></td>
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 Chief Executive Officer<br>
      (principal executive officer)</b></font></p>
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      <p><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>Vice Chairman, Director and&nbsp;</b></font></td>
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      STEPHEN F. PAGE</b></font></td>
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      <p><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>Chief Financial Officer<br>
      (principal financial officer)</b></font></td>
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    <td WIDTH="76" VALIGN="TOP"><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></font></td>
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    <td WIDTH="377" VALIGN="TOP"><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>&nbsp;Vice President, Controller</b></font></td>
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      GREGORY J. HAYES</b></font></td>
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      <p><font size="2" face="Arial"><b>(principal accounting officer)</b></font></p>
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      <b>
      JEAN-PIERRE GARNIER*</b></font></u></td>
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      <b>
      Director</b></font></td>
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      (Jean-Pierre Garnier)</b></font></td>
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      <b>
      JAMIE S. GORELICK*</b></font></u></td>
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      <b>
      Director</b></font></td>
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      <b>
      (Jamie S. Gorelick)</b></font></td>
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      <b>
      CHARLES R. LEE*</b></font></u></td>
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      RICHARD D. MCCORMICK*</b></font></u></td>
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      FRANK P. POPOFF*</b></font></u></td>
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      H. PATRICK SWYGERT*</b></font></u></td>
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      <b>
      Director</b></font></td>
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      (H. Patrick Swygert)</b></font></td>
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      <b>
      ANDRE VILLENEUVE*</b></font></u></td>
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      <p><font face="Arial" size="2">
      <b>
      Director</b></font></td>
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      Director</b></font></td>
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      <b>
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<p><b>WILLIAM H. TRACHSEL, AS ATTORNEY-IN-FACT<br>
FOR THE DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS AFTER<br>
WHOSE NAMES APPEARS AN ASTERISK</b></p>
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      <p><font face="Arial" size="2">-- Opinion of Counsel as to the legality of the securities
      to be registered.</font></td>
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      <p><font face="Arial" size="2">-- Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP</font></td>
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      <p><font face="Arial" size="2">-- The consent of counsel is contained in Exhibit 5.</font></td>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
  October 27, 2003
Registration No.
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
______________
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
(Exact name of issuer as specified in its
charter)
Delaware
(State or other
        jurisdiction of
incorporation or
        organization)
06-0570975
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
One Financial Plaza, Hartford, Connecticut 06101
(Address of principal executive offices,
including Zip Code)
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION EMPLOYEE
SAVINGS PLAN
(Full title of the Plan)
WILLIAM H. TRACHSEL, Esq.
Secretary
One Financial Plaza
Hartford, Connecticut 06101
(860) 728-7000
(Name, address and telephone number of agent
for service)
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Securities
to be Registered
Amount to be
Registered
Proposed
Maximum
Offering Price
Per Share (2)
Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price
Amount of
Registration Fee
Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share (1)
26,000,000
shares (3)
$16.25
$422,500,000
$34,180.25
(1)
Shares to be issued upon the
      conversion of 6,500,000 shares of Series A ESOP Convertible Preferred
      Stock held by the Employee Savings Plan Trustee on behalf of the United
      Technologies Corporation Employee Stock Ownership Plan, a component of the
      United Technologies Corporation Employee Savings Plan.
(2)
Based on a conversion price of
      $16.25 per share of Common Stock.
(3)
Pursuant to Rule 416(a) under
      the 1933 Act, the number of shares registered hereunder includes such
      additional number of shares of Common Stock as are required to prevent
      dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar
      transaction that results in an increase in the number of outstanding
      shares of Common Stock.
The United Technologies Corporation Employee Savings Plan
(the "Plan") provides certain eligible employees of United
Technologies Corporation (the "Corporation") and its subsidiaries and
affiliates with the opportunity to participate in a payroll deduction
tax-advantaged savings program. The Corporation provides the additional benefit
of matching employer contributions for those eligible employees who elect to
participate in the Plan. The Employee Stock Ownership Plan (the
"ESOP") is an integral component of the Plan, which provides for the
funding of employer matching contributions in company stock, currently in the
form of Series A ESOP Convertible Preferred Stock, $1.00 par value (the
"ESOP Preferred Stock"). This Registration Statement registers the
shares of the Corporation's common stock, $1.00 par value, per share
("Common Stock") issuable upon the conversion of the ESOP Preferred
Stock.
PART II
ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE
The following documents are hereby incorporated by reference:
(1) the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q of the Corporation
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission")
for the quarters ended March 31, 2003, June 30, 2003 and September 30, 2003 and
the Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Corporation filed with the Commission for
the year ended December 31, 2002;
(2) all other reports filed by the Corporation with the
Commission pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), since the end of the
period covered by the recent Annual Report on Form 10-K referred to in (1)
above;
(3) the description of the shares of the Common Stock of
the Corporation contained in the Corporation's Registration Statement on Form
S-3, dated March 11, 2003, filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 12 of
the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report subsequently filed for the
purpose of updating that description; and
All documents subsequently filed by the Corporation or the
Plan pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, 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. Any
statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of
this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or
in any subsequently filed document which also is deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so
modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded,
to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.
ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES
The securities registered hereby are shares of the
Corporation's Common Stock, issuable upon the conversion of shares of the
Corporation's ESOP Preferred Stock.
ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL
The legality of the securities offered pursuant to this
Registration Statement has been passed on by Richard M. Kaplan, Esq. Mr. Kaplan,
Associate General Counsel of the Corporation, is a shareowner of Common Stock.
The financial statements incorporated in this Registration
Statement by reference to the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters
ended March 31, 2003, June 30, 2003 and September 30, 2003 and the Annual Report
on Form 10-K of the Corporation for the year ended December 31, 2002 have been
so incorporated in reliance on the reports of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP,
independent auditors, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing
and accounting.
ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
Pursuant to Section 102 of the General Corporation Law of
Delaware, the Corporation has adopted a provision in its Certificate of
Incorporation eliminating the personal liability of its directors for monetary
damages to the Corporation and its stockholders for any breach of their
fiduciary duties as directors of the Corporation, except for their liability due
to (1) breach of loyalty to the Corporation, (2) acts or omissions not in good
faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (3)
any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit or
(4) any payment of unlawful dividends or an unlawful stock repurchase or
redemption.
Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law
permits a Delaware corporation to indemnify any person who is or was a party to
any actual or threatened legal action, whether criminal, civil, administrative
or investigative because of his or her service as an officer, director or agent
of the corporation against expenses, judgments, fines and settlement payments
reasonably and actually incurred by him or her in connection with such
proceeding, if he acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably
believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and,
with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to
believe was unlawful, except that, with respect to any legal action by or in the
right of the corporation itself, an officer, director or agent of the
corporation only is entitled to indemnification for expenses actually and
reasonably incurred. Section 7.5 of the Corporation's Bylaws provides that the
Corporation shall indemnify its officers, directors, employees, fiduciaries and
agents (and their heirs and legal representatives) to the full extent permitted
by Delaware law.
ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED
Not applicable
ITEM 8. EXHIBITS
See Exhibit Index
United Technologies Corporation previously received a
determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service that the Plan is a
qualified plan under the Internal Revenue Code and has submitted a request to
the Internal Revenue Service for a determination that the Plan, as amended,
continues to comply with the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The
Corporation hereby undertakes to submit any amendments to the Plan to the
Internal Revenue Service in a timely manner and will make all changes required
under the Internal Revenue Code to maintain the tax qualification of the Plan.
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
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 (1)(i) and (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 Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference
in the Registration Statement.
(2)
That, for the purpose of determining any
liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment
shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities
offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be
deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(3)
To remove from registration by means of a
post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain
unsold at the termination of the offering.
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, 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 of 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
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 Hartford, and State of Connecticut, on this 27
th
day
of October, 2003.
UNITED
    TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
By
(Stephen F. Page, Vice Chairman and
Chief Financial Officer)
Pursuant to the requirements of the
Securities Act of 1933, the Registration Statement has been signed below by the
following persons in the capacities indicated on this 27
th
day of October, 2003.
Signature
Title
Chairman, Director and
GEORGE DAVID
Chief Executive Officer
(principal executive officer)
Vice Chairman, Director and
STEPHEN F. PAGE
Chief Financial Officer
(principal financial officer)
Vice President, Controller
GREGORY J. HAYES
(principal accounting officer)
JEAN-PIERRE GARNIER*
Director
(Jean-Pierre Garnier)
JAMIE S. GORELICK*
Director
(Jamie S. Gorelick)
CHARLES R. LEE*
Director
(Charles R. Lee)
RICHARD D. MCCORMICK*
Director
(Richard D. McCormick)
FRANK P. POPOFF*
Director
(Frank P. Popoff)
H. PATRICK SWYGERT*
Director
(H. Patrick Swygert)
ANDRE VILLENEUVE*
Director
(Andre Villeneuve)
HAROLD A. WAGNER*
Director
(Harold A. Wagner)
*By
WILLIAM H. TRACHSEL, AS ATTORNEY-IN-FACT
FOR THE DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS AFTER
WHOSE NAMES APPEARS AN ASTERISK
EXHIBIT INDEX
Page
5
-- Opinion of Counsel as to the legality of the securities
      to be registered.
23(a)
-- Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
23(b)
-- The consent of counsel is contained in Exhibit 5.
24
-- Powers of Attorney.