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                                                  EXHIBIT 99.9

                             EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT


     This Employment Agreement ("Agreement") is entered into
effective May 24, 1994 by and between Wyman-Gordon Company, a
Massachusetts corporation (the "Company"), and David P. Gruber (the
"Executive").

     WHEREAS, the Company wishes to retain the services of the
Executive to serve as its President and Chief Executive Officer;
and

     WHEREAS, the Executive is willing to serve the Company in such
capacity;

     NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the Executive's service to
the Company and the mutual agreements contained herein, the Company
and the Executive hereby agree as follows:

 1. Employment

    The Company agrees to employ the Executive, and the Executive
agrees to serve, as the Company's President and Chief Executive
Officer (the "Office") on the conditions and subject to the
agreements expressed herein.  

 2. Extent of Service

    Executive agrees to devote his full time and best efforts to
fulfilling the responsibilities of the Office, as defined from time
to time by the Board of Directors (the "Board"), to which he shall
report and from which he shall take direction.  As part of his
responsibilities the Executive shall develop a succession plan for
the office of Chief Executive Officer and shall report annually to
the Board on such plan.
 
3.  Term of Employment

(a) The Executive's employment under this Agreement shall
    continue for a period of two years from May 24, 1994 (the
    "Employment Period").  The Employment Period may be extended
    by written agreement of the parties.

(b) The Company shall be permitted to terminate the Executive's
    employment during the Employment Period only in the event of
    Executive's Disability or death or for Cause.  For purposes
    of this Agreement, "Disability" shall mean an illness or
    injury that prevents Executive from performing his duties
    hereunder (as they existed immediately before the illness or
    injury) on a full-time basis for at least six consecutive
    months and qualifies him for benefits under the Company's
    Long-Term Disability Plan.  The Company shall have "Cause" to
    terminate the Executive's employment only if the Executive
    (i) intentionally engages in a dishonest act or acts with
    respect to the Company or its subsidiaries; (ii) is convicted
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    of a crime involving moral turpitude or (iii) willfully or
    through gross negligence commits a material violation of his
    responsibilities to the Company hereunder or refuses to
    follow legitimate direction from the Board, which violation
    or refusal continues for more than 30 days after written
    notice to the Executive setting forth in reasonable detail
    the nature of the violations, given pursuant to a vote of a
    majority of the members of the Board voting at a duly-held
    regular or special meeting.  

 4. Compensation

    The Executive shall receive during the Employment Period a
monthly gross base salary paid at the rate of $300,000 per year or
such higher rate as the Board shall approve.  In addition to  his
base salary, Executive shall be eligible to participate in the
Company's Management Incentive Plan, as such Plan may be in effect
from time to time.  

 5. Benefits

    The Executive shall be entitled to participate in the
Company's Supplemental Retirement Plan for Senior Executives, and
receive, on the same basis as the Company's other executive
employees, all other benefits maintained by the Company for its
executive employees generally, including medical, dental, life and
disability insurance, vacation, participation in the
Savings/Investment Plan, the Long-Term Incentive Plan, the
Retirement Income Plan and any other health and welfare benefit
plans and perquisites, as in effect from time to time.

 6. Benefits Upon Employment Termination

    If the Company should terminate Executive's employment
hereunder during the Employment Period for reasons other than Cause
or Executive's death or Disability or if Executive should resign
his employment hereunder for Good Reason, as defined below, he
shall be entitled to the following:

(a) Payment of his base salary in effect at the time of
    termination shall continue to be made during a period of two
    years after such termination (the "post-termination period").

(b) All benefits including, without limitation, medical, dental
    and life insurance, shall remain in effect during the
    post-termination period or until the date on which Executive
    first becomes eligible for insurance coverage of a similar
    nature provided by a firm that employs him following such
    termination of employment, whichever first occurs.  

Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall
require the Company to make any payment or to provide any benefit
to the Executive that the Company is otherwise required to provide
under any other contract, agreement, policy, plan or arrangement,
including, without limitation, an Executive Severance Agreement
dated as of October 16, 1991 by and between the Company and the
Executive.
 
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 7. Termination for Good Reason

    The Executive shall have a Good Reason for terminating his 
employment with the Company only if one or more of the following
occurs:

(a) an involuntary change in the Executive's status or position
    with the Company that represents a demotion from the
    Executive's then current status or position;

(b) the assignment to the Executive by the Board of any duties or
    responsibilities that are materially inconsistent with the
    Executive's then current status or position;

(c) layoff or involuntary termination of the Executive's
    employment, except in connection with the termination of the
    Executive's employment for Cause or as a result of the
    Executive's Disability, death or retirement;

(d) a reduction by the Company in the Executive's base salary,
    other than in the case of reductions in salary with respect
    to the Company's executive officers generally;

(e) any action or inaction by the Company that would adversely
    the Executive's continued participation in any Benefit Plan
    on at least as favorable a basis as was the case at the time
    of such action or inaction, or that would materially reduce
    the Executive's benefits in the future under the Benefit Plan
    or deprive him of any material benefits that he then enjoyed,
    except to the extent that such action or inaction by the
    Company (i) is also taken or not taken, as the case may be,
    in respect of covered employees generally, (ii) is required
    by the terms of any Benefit Plan as in effect immediately
    before such action or inaction, or (iii) is necessary to
    comply with applicable law or to preserve the qualification
    of any Benefit Plan under section 401(a) of the Internal
    Revenue Code; 

(f) the Company's failure to obtain the express assumption of
    this Agreement by any successor to the Company; and

(g) any material violation by the Company of a Performance Share
    Agreement of even date, an Executive Severance Agreement
    dated as of October 16, 1991, or any agreement under the
    Wyman-Gordon Long-Term Incentive Plan (or any similar plan).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, no action by the Company shall give
rise to a Good Reason if it results from the Executive's
termination for Cause, death or retirement, and no action by the
Company specified in paragraphs (a) through (d) of the preceding
sentence shall give rise to a Good Reason if it results from the
Executive's Disability.  For purposes of this Section 7, "Benefit
Plan" means any compensation plan, such as an incentive (including
the Management Incentive Plan or comparable executive incentive
plan) or stock option plan, or any employee benefit plan, such as a
thrift, pension, profit-sharing, stock bonus, long-term  


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performance award, medical, disability, accident, or life insurance
plan, or any other plan, program or policy of the Company that is
intended to benefit employees.
 
 8. Non-Competition

    The Executive agrees that for a period of two years following
expiration or termination of the Employment Period, except where
termination by the Company is made without Cause or termination by
the Executive is made with Good Reason, he will not engage in any
employment or other activity, whether as an employee, director,
principal, guarantor or creditor of, or as a consultant or advisor
to, or as an investor (other than as an investor in less than one
percent of the outstanding stock of a corporation whose stock is
publicly traded) in or for the benefit of, any corporation,
partnership, trust, proprietorship, business or other entity whose
business is in competition with any business of the Company as then
conducted.

 9. Confidential Information

    Executive agrees that he shall not at any time during or
following the Employment Period disclose to any person, client,
employer, company or other party any confidential information
obtained by him incident to his employment by the Company relating
to the processes, products, machinery, apparatus, financial data,
business information or trade secrets of the Company, unless in
connection with the performance of his duties while employed
hereunder or, if after the termination of his employment or the
expiration of this Agreement, unless specifically authorized in
writing by the Board or successor Chief Executive Officer.  Any
such information which the Company does not generally make
available to the public shall be considered confidential for
purposes of this Agreement, provided that any such information that
becomes public knowledge other than as a result of Executive's
breach of his obligations hereunder shall not be considered
confidential for purposes of this Agreement.

10. General Provisions

(a) Governing Law.  Except as otherwise expressly provided
    herein, this Agreement and the rights and obligations
    hereunder shall be construed and enforced in accordance with
    the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

(b) Successor to the Company.  This Agreement shall inure to the
    benefit of and shall be binding upon and enforceable by the
    Company and any successor thereto, including, without
    limitation, any corporation or corporations acquiring
    directly or indirectly all or substantially all of the
    business or assets of the Company, whether by merger,
    consolidation, sale or otherwise, but shall not otherwise be
    assignable by the Company.  Without limitation of the
    foregoing sentence, the Company shall require any successor
    (whether direct or indirect, by merger, consolidation, sale
    or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the business or
    assets of the Company, by agreement in form satisfactory to

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    the Executive, expressly, absolutely and unconditionally to
    assume and to agree to perform this Agreement in the same
    manner and to the same extent as the Company would have been
    required to perform it if no such succession had taken place.

(c) Successor to the Executive.  This Agreement shall inure to
    the benefit of and shall be binding upon and enforceable by
    the Executive and his personal and legal representatives,
    executors, administrators, heirs, distributees and legatees
    ("Successors") but may not otherwise be assigned by
    Executive.

(d) Notices.  All notices provided for in this Agreement shall be
    in writing.  Notices to the Company shall be deemed given
    when personally delivered or sent by certified or registered
    mail or overnight delivery service to Wyman-Gordon Company,
    244 Worcester Street, North Grafton, Massachusetts,
    Attention:  Company Clerk.  Notices to the Executive shall be
    deemed given when personally delivered or sent by certified
    or registered mail or overnight delivery service to the last
    address for the Executive shown on the records of the
    Company.  Either the Company or the Executive may, by notice
    to the other, designate an address other than the foregoing
    for the receipt of subsequent notices.

(e) Arbitration.  All disputes arising under this Agreement which
    cannot, after reasonable efforts, be resolved by the parties
    shall be submitted to and settled by arbitration.  Such
    arbitration shall be effected by an arbitrator selected by
    and shall be conducted in accordance with the Rules existing
    at the date of such submission of the American Arbitration
    Association.  Any arbitration award shall be binding and
    enforceable in any court of competent jurisdiction.  Each of
    the parties shall bear its own costs, expenses and attorneys'
    fees in prosecuting, defending or enforcing any arbitration
    hereunder.

(f) Waivers.  No waiver of any provision of this Agreement shall
    be valid unless approved in writing by the party giving such
    waiver.  No waiver of a breach under any provision of this
    Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of such provision or
    any other provision of this Agreement or any subsequent
    breach.  No failure on the part of either the Company or the
    Executive to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right
    or remedy conferred by law or this Agreement shall operate as
    waiver of such right or remedy, and no exercise or waiver, in
    whole or in part, of any right or remedy conferred by law or
    herein shall operate as a waiver of any other right or
    remedy.
 
(g) Severability.  If any provision of this Agreement shall be
    held invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, such
    invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect any other
    provision of this Agreement or part thereof, each of which
    shall remain in full force and effect.



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(h) Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in a number of
    counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original
    but all of which together shall constitute a single
    instrument.

(i) Entire Agreement.  This Agreement contains the entire
    agreement between the parties with respect to the subject
    matter hereof.  No amendment to this Agreement may be made
    except in writing signed by both the Company and the
    Executive.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed
this Agreement as of the date first above written.


ATTEST:                           WYMAN-GORDON COMPANY


/s/Wallace F. Whitney, Jr.        By   /s/John M. Nelson    
   Wallace F. Whitney, Jr.                John M. Nelson

ATTEST:


/s/ Wallace F. Whitney, Jr.            /s/David P. Gruber   
    Wallace F. Whitney, Jr.               David P. Gruber






























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