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E-One & AIP

August 5, 2008 – The management team of E-One and American Industrial Partners (AIP), a financial investment firm, announced the completed acquisition of E-One, Inc. from Federal Signal Corporation.

E-One was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Ocala, Florida. The Company has one of the largest installed bases in the industry and sells one of the broadest product lines covering nearly every type of fire rescue apparatus. Throughout its history, the Company’s name has been synonymous with quality and innovation and its products are distributed by one of the industry’s leading dealer networks.

Peter Guile, Chief Executive Officer of E-One, said, “Under our new ownership, we are implementing a comprehensive agenda of operating initiatives targeted at achieving industry leadership in areas such as quality, delivery, cost, product performance, and aftermarket support. We believe the unique resources and expertise of AIP will help E-One achieve significant success as an independent company.”

Dino Cusumano, a managing partner of American Industrial Partners, said, “We believe in the leadership of Peter Guile and the depth and experience of the E-One management team and employee base. We are confident that our partnership with E-One management will create an industry leading company. E-One is a premier brand name in the fire rescue market and has a tremendous franchise that we can build on. Our operating resources will allow the Company to achieve its full potential as an industry leader.”

A board of directors has been appointed to advise the E-One management team. E-One’s Board of Directors will include Gene Goodson and Donn Viola who each have substantial experience in the fire rescue and heavy truck industries. Gene Goodson is the former Chairman and CEO of Oshkosh Truck. Donn Viola is the former Chief Operating Officer of Mack Trucks.

Gene Goodson stated, “It is exciting to be involved with a company with such high potential as E-One. The challenges and opportunities in the fire apparatus industry have changed dramatically in the past ten years and I look forward to being part of such a dynamic industry.”

About E-One:

As a leading manufacturer of first responder vehicles, E-One engineers, manufactures and markets mission-critical vehicles including Custom and Commercial Pumpers, Tankers, Aerial Ladders and Platforms, Command and Communication vehicles, Rescues vehicles, Quick Attack vehicles, Industrial Pumpers, and Aircraft Rescue Firefighting vehicles. The company sells its products world­wide and is headquartered in Ocala, Florida. E-One is an ISO 9001 registered and CCC certified manufacturer. For more information on E-One, visit www.e-one.com

About American Industrial Partners:

American Industrial Partners is a leading middle market private equity firm that makes control equity investments in mid-sized industrial companies that can benefit from the firm’s systematic approach to implementing strategic and operational improvements. AIP was founded in 1989 and has managed three prior investment funds which total over $1 billion of equity capital. AIP is currently investing its fourth fund. For more information, visit www.aipartners.com

E-One Appoints New Dealer in South Africa

August 18, 2008 – E-One is pleased to announce the appointment of Marcé Fire Fighting Technology as their new Official Dealer for the nations of South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland.

Luke de Koker, Regional Manager for E-One in Africa, said, “E-One has for many years dominated the supply of NFPA compliant fire fighting & rescue apparatus market and has successfully delivered over 400 such vehicles into South Africa, therefore E-One believes that our valued customers deserve Service Excellence by a reputable dealer with competent sales and maintenance staff and with facilities, it is for this reason that E-One has decided to appoint Marcé”.

Unlike many other manufacturers who entered the South African market when the demand for fire fighting & rescue apparatus were good and left when the demand dropped off, E-One was the only manufacturer who stayed with total committed to our customers for the past 30 years to provide them with the most innovative, reliable, quality apparatus and service money can buy.

Contrary to belief, E-One has the most innovative, advanced and reliable range of NFPA, ICAO and FAA compliant apparatus available, whether it is for the North American market or for the African continent….E-One does not manufacture to different standards for different markets. South Africa, Southern Africa and the rest of Africa deserve the best product available on the world market, E-One and our dealers bring advanced engineered and highest quality apparatus at the best value for money to you with confidence.

Safety is of utmost importance to E-One when we design, engineer and build our apparatus, all are tested and certified by an Authorized Third Party company, especially for the E/ECE/TRANS/505 Regulation No. 29 Cab Crash Worthiness safety standards for the Entire four-door cab. E-One’s custom cab designs are tested and must first pass a series of demanding tests such as a side-impact pre-load, a quasi-static roof strength and a frontal impact. Not only do our cabs pass, but they exceed SAE and ECE requirements. Why do we put our cab designs through such intense trials? Because when it comes to safety, we believe “good enough” is never good enough.

E-One has also developed into our proven chassis design the state-of-the-art rollover protection system, a unique tether system that secures the ABTS seat backs to the rigid cab structure,  E-one’s G4™ exclusive electronic stability control system, E-One’s CrewGuard™ occupant detection system, and many more other features.

As a leading manufacturer of fire fighting & rescue apparatus, E-One engineers and builds a complete line of apparatus including Aerial Ladder Vehicles, Aerial Ladder Platform Vehicles, Refinery/Industrial Pumpers, Municipal Pumpers, Municipal Tanker/Pumpers, Rescue Pumpers, Hazardous Materials Vehicles, Rescue Vehicles, Command Centre Vehicles, Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting Vehicles and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Vehicles.  E-One is an ISO 9001 registered manufacturer. For more information please visit www.e-one.com

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