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FORM 3
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or
Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person(1)
Farmer, Sr. Forest J.
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(Last) (First) (Middle)
c/o American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. Legal Department
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(Street)
1840 Holbrook Avenue
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(City) (State) (Zip)
Detroit MI 48212
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2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
4/21/99
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3. IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary)
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4. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Symbol: AXL American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc.
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5. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
[X] Director [_] 10% Owner
[_] Officer (give title below) [_] Other (specify below)
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6. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Day/Year)
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7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
[X] Form Filed by One Reporting Person
[_] Form Filed by More Than One Reporting Person
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TABLE I -- NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED
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3. Ownership Form:
2. Amount of Securities Direct (D) or
1. Title of Security Beneficially Owned Indirect (I) 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership
(Instr. 4) (Instr. 4) (Instr. 5) (Instr. 4)
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No securities owned. -0- N/A
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Reminder: Report on aseperate line for each class of securities beneficially
owned directly or indirectly.
* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction
5(b)(v)
Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained
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FORM 3 (CONTINUED)
TABLE II -- DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED
(E.G., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES)
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5. Owner-
3. Title and Amount of Securities ship
Underlying Derivative Security Form of
2. Date Exercisable (Instr. 4) Derivative
and Expiration Date --------------------------------- 4. Conver- Security:
(Month/Day/Year) Amount sion or Direct 6. Nature of
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Date Expira- Number Price of Indirect Beneficial
1. Title of Derivative Exer- tion of Derivative (I) Ownership
Security (Instr. 4) cisable Date Title Shares Security (Instr. 5) (Instr. 5)
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Explanation of Responses:
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PATRICK S. LANCASTER April 27, 1999
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**Signature of Reporting Person(1) Date
Attorney-in-Fact
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal
Violations.
See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed.
If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.
Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information contained
in this form are not required to respond unless the form displays a currently
valid OMB Number.
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know all men by these presents that Forest J. Farmer, Sr. does hereby
make, constitute and appoint Patrick S. Lancaster and Mike Simonte as true and
lawful attorneys-in-fact of the undersigned with full powers of substitution and
revocation, and each such attorney-in-fact may act independently, for and in the
name, place and stead of the undersigned (both in the undersigned's individual
capacity and in any other corporate or partnership capacity the undersigned is
otherwise authorized to sign), to execute and deliver such forms as may be
required to be filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange
Commission with respect to any investments of Forest J. Farmer, Sr. in the
common stock of American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. (including any
amendments or supplements to any reports or schedules previously filed by such
person) pursuant to Sections 13(d) and 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, including without limitation Schedules 13D and statements on
Form 3, Form 4 and Form 5.
FOREST J. FARMER
Name: Forest J. Farmer, Sr.
Dated as of April 21, 1999
STATE OF: MICHIGAN
COUNTY OF: WAYNE
On 4/21/99, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public of said State,
duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Forest J. Farmer, Sr., proved
to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person who executed the
within instrument in his individual capacity.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed by official
seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
JANICE A. WASHO
Notary Public JANICE A. WASHO
NOTARY PUBLIC, MACOMB COUNTY, MI
MY COMMISSION EXPIRES 01-16-2003