0001209191-11-025028.txt : 20110429 0001209191-11-025028.hdr.sgml : 20110429 20110429153734 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001209191-11-025028 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20110427 FILED AS OF DATE: 20110429 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20110429 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Seikel Terence C. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001471477 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-00452 FILM NUMBER: 11794285 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 5405 ABBEY ROAD CITY: ROCHESTER STATE: MI ZIP: 48306 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: TECUMSEH PRODUCTS CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000096831 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: AIR COND & WARM AIR HEATING EQUIP & COMM & INDL REFRIG EQUIP [3585] IRS NUMBER: 381093240 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MI FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1136 OAK VALLEY DRIVE CITY: ANN ARBOR STATE: MI ZIP: 48108 BUSINESS PHONE: 7345859500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1136 OAK VALLEY DRIVE CITY: ANN ARBOR STATE: MI ZIP: 48108 4 1 c16260_4x1.xml MAIN DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION X0303 4 2011-04-27 0000096831 TECUMSEH PRODUCTS CO TECUA 0001471477 Seikel Terence C. 5405 ABBEY ROAD ROCHESTER MI 48306 1 0 0 0 Deferred stock units 2011-04-27 4 A 0 5846.8135 0 A Class A Common Stock 5846.8135 5846.8135 D Deferred stock units automatically awarded to Outside Directors of the Company effective on the date of the Annual Meeting of Shareholders each year (April 27, 2011 this year). Deferred stock units are the economic equivalent of one share of Class A common stock. Each award under the plan is fully vested when made, except that a director will forfeit his or her Account if the director's service on the Board is terminated, voluntarily or involuntarily, for any "Reason" as defined in the Company's Outside Directors' Deferred Stock Unit Plan (generally breach of policies, failure to perform duties, conviction of various crimes, embezzlement or materially injuring the Company). The deferred stock units will be paid out of the Director's Account in cash, within 30 days after the earlier of a Comapny Change in Control (as defined in the plan) or the date he or she ceases to be a non-employee director for any reason. Beginning at the 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, these deferred stock units are being awarded after the election of directors at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders, and for 2011 only, a pro rated award of deferred stock units was made on January 1, 2011 for the short transition plan year period from January 1, 2011 through the 2011 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Exhibit List Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney Terence C. Seikel by James Connor, Attorney in Fact 2011-04-29 EX-24 2 c16260_24.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY Power of Attorney

Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of James Connor and Roger Jackson, signing singly, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a 10% shareholder, officer and/or director of Tecumseh Products Company, a Michigan corporation (the “Company”), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such forms with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any applicable stock exchange or similar authority, including obtaining identification numbers for electronic filing; and

(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required on the part of, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact’s discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,

unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed this 10th day of January, 2011.

_/s/ Terence C. Seikel      
                                                       Terence C. Seikel