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ROGER HOBBIE Page 90 Page 92 1 MR. BARTELS: Urban 77 1 customers such as International? 2 MR HAFNER: Urban 7. Was that previously 2 A Yes, for instance, Walther, his accounts were 3 marked today or not? 3 Kenworth, essentially. 4 MR BARTELS: No. 4 Q How about Mr. VanWarmer? 5 (Exhibit 19, inter-office 5 A 1 don't know if he was a sales manager, like a brake 6 correspondence-2/13/84, was marked.) 6 product line sales manager or something like that in that 7 Q For the record, while we are waiting, I want to say 7 area. 8 Eaton Corporation Bates 324, that may not be correct. Is that 8 Q And I just asked you about Mr. VanWanner, right? 9 your Bates number or Eaton's Bates number7 9 A Yes. 10 MR QUICK: Eaton's Bates number is in the 10 Q Mr. Valentine? 11 lower right-hand comer and it should be 018743. 11 A Sales coordinator at that time. 12 MR HAFNER: Patrick, is that your Bates 12 Q We have talked about Mr. Hoenes before, correct? 13 number in the center bottom of the page? 13 A Engineering manager. 14 MR BARTELS: Yes. 14 Q What was your position in this time frame of 15 MR HAFNER: For the record, it is P-EAT-0432. 15 February 19847 16 A Okay. 16 A '84,1 would have been general service manager for 17 Q Mr. Hobbie, have you seen that document before 18 beginning your deposition today? 17 Eaton truck components marketing. 18 Q I think the name came up before, Mr. Barnhart in 19 A I think in reviewing the disclosures. I didn't see 19 this time frame. Who was he? 20 it back in 1984 but when I went through the files, yeah. 20 A Axle brake division sales account manager for 21 Q I think we covered who Mr. O'Boyle was, did we not? 21 International Harvester, Navistar. 22 A Yes. 22 Q In the first sentence, IH engineering brake group 23 Q Mr. Singh? 24 A He was the axle brake -1 think he was chief 23 has advised that both Carlisle and Abex are withdrawing all 24 current testing on nonasbestos lining. The reasons given are 25 research and development engineer for the brake product at 25 incurring in -- it probably should say incurred -- the Page 91 Page 93 1 that time. 2 Q Mr. Pipik? 3 A Pipik at that time would have been the axle brake 4 tech service manager. 5 Q Mr. Billian7 6 A Probably at that time probably a sales coordinator. 7 Q Mr. Lawrence7 8 A Global product manager for the brake product for 9 axle brake division. 10 Q Mr. Welser? 11 A Probably sales coordinator, axle brake division. 12 Q Mr. Young? 13 A Axle brake division, sales manager. 14 Q I missed the last part. 15 A Sales manager. 16 Q Mr. Hopper? 17 A Sales account manager for axle brake. 18 Q Mr. O'Connor? 19 A Probably sales coordinator. 20 Q Mr. Zalar? 21 A Sales coordinator. 22 Q Mr. Walther? 23 A Sales account manager for axle brake division. 24 Q When you are referring to sales, whether account 25 manager or manager, you are talking about sales by Eaton to 1 problems incurring in one, excessive wear compared to 2 asbestos; two, drum problems; three, composition of 3 materials - very sporadic. Were you familiar with that 4 situation as referenced in that memo? 5 A No, not at the time. 1 think this is probably based 6 on lab dynamometer testing. That's what I'm guessing. To my 7 knowledge, that didn't occur on any ofthe field tests 8 applications that were out there. 9 Q And whose lab dynamometer testing are you referring 10 to? 11 A I don't know. It could be the lining suppliers or 12 it could have been Rockwell, Eaton, I don't know. 13 Q The next sentence reads, based on this input, IH has 14 temporarily stopped their NAB program until such time, and it 15 seems to be missing a word, the lining suppliers can develop a 16 nonasbestos lining that meets or exceeds the current asbestos 17 lining being produced today. 18 Were you aware oflH in this period stopping 19 its nonasbestos brake program because ofthe issues addressed 20 in this memo? 21 A No, I was not. 22 Q Were you aware of any other OEM manufacturers 23 besides International at any point stopping their efforts to 24 go to nonasbestos brakes because of problems encountered with 25 the nonasbestos material being supplied? 24 (Pages 90 to 93) (800) MERRILL LEGAL SOLUTIONS 325-3376 www.MerrillCorp.com 5cfe6bcd-afe7-4B9e-b187-b081ecda30a3