EXHIBIT 24.1


                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below, being a director or officer or both of one of Dura Automotive
Systems, Inc. (the "Parent"), Dura Operating Corp. (the "Company") and the
following subsidiaries: Dura Automotive Systems Cable Operations, Inc.,
Universal Tool & Stamping Company, Inc., Adwest Electronics, Inc., Dura
Automotive Systems of Indiana, Inc., Atwood Automotive Inc., Mark I Molded
Plastics of Tennessee, Inc., Atwood Mobile Products, Inc. (the "Subsidiaries"),
constitutes and appoints David R. Bovee as such person's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution,
for such person and in such person's name, place and stead, in any and all
capacities, to sign the Registration Statement on Form S-4 relating to debt
securities of the Company and the guaranties of such debt securities by Parent
and Subsidiaries, as contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement by and
among the Company, the Parent, the Subsidiaries, Bank of America Securities LLC,
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc, Salomon Smith Barney, Inc., Comerica Securities
Inc., Scotia Capita (USA) Inc. and all amendments (including post-effective
amendments) to such Registration Statement on Form S-4 (and any registration
statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, for the offering which such Registration Statement on Form S-4
relates), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents
in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting
unto said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform
each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the
premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in
person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and
agent, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Power
of Attorney has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on
the dates indicated.




              SIGNATURES                                      CAPACITY                                 DATE
              ----------                                      --------                                 ----
                                                                                             
/s/ Karl F. Storrie                      President and Chief Executive Officer of Parent           May 8, 2002
- ------------------------------------     and Company; Director of Parent and Company
Karl F. Storrie

/s/ Scott D. Rued                        Chairman of the Board of Parent and the Company           May 8, 2002
- ------------------------------------
Scott D. Rued


/s/ Robert E. Brooker, Jr.               Director of Parent and the Company                        May 9, 2002
- ------------------------------------
Robert E. Brooker, Jr.





                                                                                             
/s/ Jack K. Edwards                      Director of Parent and the Company                        May 10, 2002
- ------------------------------------
Jack K. Edwards


/s/ James O. Futterknecht, Jr.           Director of Parent and the Company                        May 10, 2002
- ------------------------------------
James O. Futterknecht, Jr.


/s/ J. Richard Jones                     Director of Parent and the Company                        May 8, 2002
- ------------------------------------
J. Richard Jones


/s/ S. A. Johnson                        Director of Parent and the Company                        May 11, 2002
- ------------------------------------
S. A. Johnson


/s/ Eric J. Rosen                        Director of Parent and the Company                        May 7, 2002
- ------------------------------------
Eric J. Rosen


/s/ Ralph R. Whitney, Jr.                Director of Parent and the Company                        May 9, 2002
- ------------------------------------
Ralph R. Whitney, Jr.


/s/ Brian Ghesquiere                     Assistant Secretary and Director of                       May 9, 2002
- ------------------------------------     each of the Subsidiaries
Brian Ghesquiere