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                                                                     Exhibit 4.6

                            INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT

This INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT, dated as of May 5, 2001 (this "Agreement"), is
executed and delivered by BARTON CAPITAL CORPORATION, a Delaware limited
liability company, as purchaser under the Receivables Purchase Agreement
referred to herein ("Barton"), SOCIETE GENERALE, a banking corporation organized
under the laws of France, as agent for Barton (in such capacity, the "Conduit
Agent"), and BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking
association, as administrative agent under the Credit Agreement referred to
herein (in such capacity, the "Lender Agent").

                                  BACKGROUND

     A.  Applied Power Credit Corporation (the "Receivables Subsidiary"), APW
North America, Inc. ("APW"), as initial servicer and guarantor, and certain
originators (the "Originators") are parties to the Amended and Restated Purchase
and Sale Agreement, dated as of November 20, 1997, (as amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, the "Purchase and Sale Agreement"),
pursuant to which the Originators have agreed to sell, and the Receivables
Subsidiary has agreed to purchase, from time to time, certain receivables and
related assets.

     B.  The Receivables Subsidiary, APW, Barton and the Conduit Agent are
parties to the Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 20, 1997 (as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the "Receivables
Purchase Agreement"), pursuant to which Barton has agreed to purchase, from time
to time, undivided percentage interests in such receivables and related assets.

     C.  APW, APW Ltd., APW Holdings Denmark APS (collectively, the
"Borrowers"), Bank One, NA, as syndication agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as
documentation agent, certain financial institutions party thereto as lenders (in
their capacity as lenders thereunder, the "Lenders") and the Lender Agent are
parties to the Multicurrency Credit Agreement, dated as of July 31, 2000 (as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the "Credit
Agreement").

     D.  The Borrowers have requested certain waivers of rights under the Credit
Agreement.

     E.  The Lenders have agreed to provide certain waivers of rights under the
Credit Agreement in return for the pledge of certain collateral, including a
pledge of the stock of the Receivables Subsidiary, to the Lender Agent for its
benefit and the benefit of the Lenders.


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     F.    Each of APW and the Receivables Subsidiary has requested an extension
of the Commitment Termination Date under the Receivables Purchase Agreement.
Concurrent with such extension, the parties to the Receivables Purchase
Agreement and the Purchase and Sale Agreement desire to amend and restate such
agreements.

     G.    The execution and delivery of this Agreement is a condition precedent
to such extension and the concurrent amendment and restatement of such
agreements.

     NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

     1.    Definitions.  (a)  Capitalized terms not defined herein that are
defined in Schedule I to the Receivables Purchase Agreement shall for the
purposes of this Agreement (including the recitals hereof) have the meanings
ascribed to such terms in such Schedule I, and this Agreement (including the
recitals hereof) shall be interpreted in accordance with the conventions set
forth in "Other Terms" of such Schedule I.

     (b)   In addition, the following terms shall have the meanings specified
below:

           "APW" has the meaning set forth in paragraph A of the recitals.

           "Barton" has the meaning set forth in the preamble.

           "Borrower" has the meaning set forth in paragraph C of the recitals.

           "Conduit Agent" has the meaning set forth in the preamble.

           "Credit Agreement" has the meaning set forth in paragraph C of the
     recitals.

           "Credit Documents" means the Credit Agreement ,the Security
     Agreement, the Pledge Agreement, the Guaranties and all other agreements,
     instruments and documents from time to time executed and delivered by the
     Borrowers and certain subsidiaries of the Borrowers in connection therewith
     for the benefit of the Lenders and the Lender Agent, as the same may be
     amended, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time.

           "Credit Obligations" means all obligations of the Borrowers to the
     Lender Parties arising under or in connection with or in respect of the
     Credit Documents, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, now
     or hereafter existing, or due or to become due.

           "Guaranties" means the guaranties of the Borrowers and certain
     subsidiaries of the Borrowers pursuant to the Credit Agreement, as amended,
     supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

           "Lender" has the meaning set forth in paragraph C of the recitals.


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           "Lender Agent" has the meaning set forth in the preamble.

           "Loan Collateral" means all property (other than Securitization
     Assets) now owned or hereafter acquired by the Borrowers or any
     subsidiaries of the Borrowers in or upon which a security interest, lien or
     mortgage is granted by the Borrowers or such subsidiaries to the Lender
     Agent for the benefit of the Lender Parties under the Credit Documents.

           "Lender Parties" means the Lender Agent and the Lenders.

           "Originators" mean such Borrowers and subsidiaries of the Borrowers
     as are listed in the attached Schedule 1 and such additional subsidiaries
     of the Borrowers to which the Required Banks (as defined in the Credit
     Agreement) may consent.

           "Pledge Agreement Collateral" means (a) the Receivables Subsidiary
     Stock, (b) each Receivables Subsidiary Note, (c) all payments of principal
     and interest or dividends or other distributions on, and other rights to
     payment under, any of the foregoing, and (d) all proceeds of any of the
     foregoing.

           "Pledge Agreement" means the Pledge Agreement, dated as of March 30,
     2001, among the Borrowers, certain subsidiaries of the Borrowers and the
     Lender Agent.

           "Purchase and Sale Agreement" has the meaning set forth in paragraph
     A of the recitals.

           "Receivables Purchase Documents" means the Receivables Purchase
     Agreement, the Purchase and Sale Agreement and all other agreements,
     instruments and documents from time to time executed and delivered by APW
     or the Receivables Subsidiary in connection therewith, as the same may be
     amended, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time.

           "Receivables Purchase Agreement" has the meaning set forth in
     paragraph B of the recitals.

           "Receivables Subsidiary" has the meaning set forth in paragraph A of
     the recitals.

           "Receivables Subsidiary Note" means any promissory note issued and
     delivered by the Receivables Subsidiary, payable to the order of an
     Originator, pursuant to the Purchase and Sale Agreement, as the same may be
     amended, supplemented, endorsed or otherwise modified from time to time,
     together with any promissory note issued in substitution therefor or
     renewal thereof in accordance with the Receivables Purchase Documents.


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           "Receivables Subsidiary Stock" means (a) all the issued and
     outstanding capital stock of the Receivables Subsidiary, (b) all additional
     shares of capital stock of the Receivables Subsidiary issued from time to
     time, and (c) all options, warrants and other rights with respect to the
     foregoing.

           "Securitization Assets" means all Receivables and Related Assets that
     may be sold, purportedly sold, contributed, transferred, conveyed or
     assigned by the Originators to the Receivables Subsidiary (regardless of
     whether any such transfer is characterized as a sale or as a secured loan).
     For purposes of this definition, "Receivables" has the meaning as presently
     defined in the Receivables Purchase Agreement and "Related Assets" has the
     meaning as presently defined in the Purchase and Sale Agreement.

           "Security Agreement" means the Security Agreement, dated as of March
     30, 2001 among the Borrowers, certain subsidiaries of the Borrowers and the
     Lender Agent.

     2.    Authorization. The Lender Agent hereby confirms that it has been duly
authorized to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement, and that each of the
Lender Parties shall, upon the Lender Agent's execution hereof, be bound by this
Agreement.

     3.    Confirmation of Sale.  Each of the Borrowers hereby, by its
acknowledgment hereof, confirms to Barton, the Conduit Agent and the Lender
Parties that it has no ownership interests, liens, claims, encumbrances or
security interests of any kind whatsoever in any now existing or hereafter
arising Securitization Assets and shall not exercise any set-off, recoupment or
similar right it may have with respect to the obligations of the Receivables
Subsidiary.

     4.    Acknowledgment.  Except for any rights or interests which the Lender
Parties may have as pledgees of the Receivables Subsidiary Stock or the
Receivables Subsidiary Notes under the Credit Documents, the Lender Parties (a)
are not creditors of, and have no recourse to any assets of, the Receivables
Subsidiary and (b) have no lien on or claim, contractual or otherwise, arising
under any of the Receivables Purchase Documents (or otherwise) to the
Securitization Assets nor any other assets of the Receivables Subsidiary,
including any proceeds thereof or earnings thereon, whether now existing or
hereafter acquired and whether tangible or intangible.

     5.    Release of Securitization Assets.  (a)  Notwithstanding anything
contained in the Credit Documents,  any other agreement, instrument, mortgage,
deed of trust or document delivered under or in connection therewith, any UCC
financing statement or any applicable law, the Lender Agent, on behalf of itself
and all of the other Lender Parties, hereby releases all liens, mortgages,
security interests, claims and interests of any kind whatsoever that it may hold
in any of the Securitization Assets (it being understood that such release shall
be automatic and irrevocable upon each sale, purported sale, contribution,
transfer, conveyance or assignment of the Securitization Assets). It is
understood and agreed that no Lender Party shall have any rights to or in any
proceeds of the Loan Collateral that constitute Securitization Assets.  The
Lender

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Agent agrees, upon the request of the Conduit Agent, to execute and deliver to
the Conduit Agent such UCC partial release statements and other documents and
instruments, and do such other acts and things, as the Conduit Agent may
reasonably request in order to evidence the release provided for in this Section
5; provided, however, that failure to execute and deliver any such partial
release statements, documents or instruments, or to do such acts and things,
shall not affect or impair the release provided for in this Section 5.

     (b)   The Lender Agent further acknowledges and agrees that to the extent
that, notwithstanding Section 5(a) above, the Lender Parties are deemed to have
any interest, claim or benefit in or from the Securitization Assets whether by
operation of law, legal process, pursuant to applicable provisions of the
Bankruptcy Code or otherwise (including without limitation by virtue of Section
1111(b) of the federal Bankruptcy Code or any successor provision having similar
effect under the Bankruptcy Code), then any such interest, claim or benefit in
or from the Securitization Assets is and shall be expressly subordinated to the
indefeasible payment in full of each Undivided Interest and other obligation to
an Affected Party (whether or not any such claim is legally perfected or
otherwise entitled to a priority of distribution or application under applicable
law, including the Bankruptcy Code) including, without limitation, the payment
of post-petition interest on such other obligations and liabilities.

     6.    Separation of Collateral.  The Lender Agent hereby agrees promptly to
return to the Conduit Agent any funds or other property which constitute
Securitization Assets (or proceeds thereof), provided, that the Conduit Agent or
the Servicer shall have identified such Securitization Assets or proceeds in
writing to the Lender Agent or the Lender Agent otherwise has actual knowledge
of the identity of such Securitization Assets or proceeds.  Solely for purposes
of maintaining the perfection of the Conduit Agent's interests therein, the
Conduit Agent hereby appoints the Lender Agent as its agent with respect to such
Securitization Assets and proceeds, and the Lender Agent hereby accepts such
appointment.

     7.    Additional Agreements with Lender Parties.  The Lender Agent agrees,
represents and warrants, on behalf of itself and the Lender Parties as follows:

           (a)   The Lender Parties shall not contest or challenge, or join any
     other Person in contesting or challenging, the transfers of Securitization
     Assets from any Originator to the Receivables Subsidiary, whether on the
     grounds that such transfers were disguised financings, preferential
     transfers, fraudulent conveyances or otherwise or a transfer other than a
     "true sale" or a "true contribution."  Without limiting the foregoing, the
     Lender Parties shall not contest or challenge, or join any other Person in
     contesting or challenging, the validity, enforceability, priority or
     perfection of the interest of the Receivables Subsidiary in any of the
     Securitization Assets, or the validity, enforceability, priority or
     perfection of the interest of any assignee of the Receivables Subsidiary
     (including Barton) in any of the Securitization Assets.  In addition, the
     Lender Parties shall not (x) assert that any Person and the Receivables
     Subsidiary should be substantively consolidated or that the Receivables
     Subsidiary is not or was not a

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     corporation separate and distinct from the Originators, APW or any other
     Person, or (y) challenge the valuation of any Securitization Assets which
     Barton, any assignee of Barton or the Conduit Agent may elect to liquidate
     as permitted under the Receivables Purchase Documents, or otherwise assert
     that any such liquidation was illegal, not done in a commercially
     reasonable manner, or otherwise invalid or improper.

           (b)   Notwithstanding any prior termination of this Agreement, the
     Lender Parties shall not, with respect to the Receivables Subsidiary or
     Barton, institute or join any other Person in instituting any bankruptcy,
     reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceeding, or other
     similar proceeding under any federal or state bankruptcy or similar law, so
     long as any Commercial Paper Note, Undivided Interest or other obligation
     to an Affected Person shall be outstanding and there shall not have lapsed
     one year and one day since  the latest maturing Commercial Paper Note and
     all Undivided Interests and such other obligations shall have been paid in
     full.

           (c)   No Lender Party shall assign its rights or obligations under
     the Credit Documents to any other Person unless such Person shall have
     agreed in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement as if it were
     a party hereto.

           (d)   Notwithstanding any provision of the Credit Documents, so long
     as any Commercial Paper Note issued to fund or maintain Barton's investment
     in the Securitization Assets, or any undivided Interest or other obligation
     to an Affected Person shall be outstanding, the Lender Parties will not (i)
     transfer any of the Pledge Agreement Collateral or any interest therein,
     except in connection with the granting of an assignment of or a
     participation in the Credit Obligations (provided, that in the case of any
     such assignment, the assignee shall have agreed in writing to be bound by
     the terms of this Agreement), to any Person, or assume ownership of the
     Receivables Subsidiary Stock or the Receivables Subsidiary Notes, (ii)
     exercise any voting rights under the Receivables Subsidiary Stock, (iii)
     institute, or cause or require any Originator to institute, any action or
     suit or exercise, or cause or require any Originator to exercise, any
     rights or remedies of such Originator upon or with respect to any breach or
     default by the Receivables Subsidiary under any Receivables Subsidiary Note
     or any other Person under any of the Receivables Purchase Documents, or
     (iv) exercise any other remedies on default by any Borrower under the
     Credit Documents with respect to the Pledge Agreement Collateral or any
     other rights or interests of the Originators under the Receivables Purchase
     Documents; provided, however, that, to the extent provided in the Credit
     Documents or under applicable law, the Lender Agent may take, or require
     any Borrower to take, reasonable actions to assure the validity, perfection
     and priority of the Lender Agent's security interest in the Pledge
     Agreement Collateral and proceeds thereof.

           (e)   The Lender Parties will not take or assert any lien on or
     security interest in (i) any rights of any Originator to sell any
     Receivable and any other Securitization Assets with respect to such
     Receivable under the Receivables Purchase Agreement, APW to act

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     as Servicer under the Receivables Purchase Agreement or otherwise to
     exercise any rights (other than the rights to receive payments from the
     Receivables Subsidiary, the Servicer or Barton under the Receivables
     Purchase Documents) or to perform any duties or obligations of such
     Originator under the Receivables Purchase Documents or (ii) any portion of
     the Servicer's Fee which, pursuant to the Receivables Purchase Agreement,
     is to be paid to Persons other than APW or any other Borrower or other
     affiliated entity on account of any costs or expenses of the transactions
     contemplated in the Receivables Purchase Documents and not to APW.

           (f)   The Lender Parties will not attempt to prohibit or restrict any
     sale or other transfer of the Securitization Assets or to interfere in any
     manner with the transactions contemplated under the Receivables Purchase
     Documents.

           (g)   The Lender Parties will not alter or cause the alteration of
     the independent director provisions of the Receivables Subsidiary's
     Articles of Incorporation or attempt to remove or replace any serving
     independent director without the consent of the Conduit Agent.

           (h)   The Lender Parties hereby acknowledge and agree that neither
     Barton nor the Conduit Agent has a fiduciary duty to any Lender Party based
     on the pledge of the Receivable Subsidiary Stock.

     8.    Reliance. Each Affected Person, and each Lender Party may rely on
this Agreement as if such Person were a party hereto. This Agreement shall
remain in effect until one year and one day after the latest maturing Commercial
Paper Note, Undivided Interest or other obligation to an Affected Person is paid
in full.

     9.    Miscellaneous. (a) No delay upon the part of any party to this
Agreement and the exercise of any right, power or remedy shall operate as a
waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise by any such party of
any right, power or remedy preclude other or further exercise thereof, or the
exercise of any other right, power or remedy. No waiver, amendment or other
modification, or consent with respect to, any provision of this Agreement shall
be effective unless the same shall be in writing and shall be signed by the
Lender Agent, Barton and the Conduit Agent.

           (b)   This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts
     and by different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which so
     executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together
     shall constitute one and the same agreement.

           (c)   This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance
     with the internal laws (as opposed to conflicts of law provisions) of
     Illinois.

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           (d)   This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit
     of each of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns.

           (e)   All notices and other communications hereunder shall, unless
     otherwise stated herein, be in writing (including telecommunications and
     communications by facsimile copy) and mailed, transmitted or delivered, as
     to each party hereto at its address set forth on Exhibit A hereto or at
     such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice
     to the other parties hereto.  All such notices and communications shall be
     effective upon receipt or (i) in the case of notice by mail, three Business
     Days after being deposited in the mails, postage prepaid, and (ii) in the
     case of notice by facsimile copy, upon the earlier to occur of (A)
     completion of transmission and telephone confirmation of receipt and (B)
     the recipient's close of business on the date of transmission.

           (f)   The section headings contained in this Agreement are and shall
     be without substantive meaning or content of any kind whatsoever and are
     not a part of the agreement between the parties hereto.

           (g)   Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or
     unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be
     ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without
     invalidating the remaining provisions hereof or thereof or affecting the
     validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Lender Agent, Barton and the Conduit Agent have caused
this Agreement to be executed and delivered as of the day first above written.

                           BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
                           as Lender Agent


                           By: __________________________________
                           Name:________________________________
                           Title:_________________________________


                           SOCIETE GENERALE,
                           as Conduit Agent


                           By: _________________________________
                           Name:_______________________________
                           Title:________________________________

                           By: _________________________________
                           Name:_______________________________
                           Title:________________________________


                           BARTON CAPITAL CORPORATION


                           By: _________________________________
                           Name:_______________________________
                           Title:________________________________

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Acknowledged and agreed as of the date first above written:


APPLIED POWER CREDIT CORPORATION


By: ____________________________________
Name:___________________________________
Title:__________________________________


APW NORTH AMERICA, INC.


By: ____________________________________
Name:___________________________________
Title:__________________________________


APW LTD.


By: ____________________________________
Name:___________________________________
Title:__________________________________


APW HOLDINGS DENMARK, APS


By: ____________________________________
Name:___________________________________
Title:__________________________________