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                                                               Exhibit 10(lxxix)

                                 AMENDMENT NO. 1
                                     TO THE
                      NACCO MATERIALS HANDLING GROUP, INC.
                              UNFUNDED BENEFIT PLAN
               (AS AMENDED AND RESTATED EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1999)

         NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc. adopts this Amendment No. 1 to the
NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc. Unfunded Benefit Plan (As Amended and
Restated Effective January 1, 1999) (the "Plan"), effective as of June 5, 1999.
Words and phrases used herein with initial capital letters which are defined in
the Plan are used herein as so defined.

                                    SECTION 1

         Section 2.7 of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read as
follows:

         "SECTION 2.7. Compensation shall have the same meaning as under the
         Profit Sharing Plan, except that (a) Compensation shall be deemed to
         include (i) the amount of compensation deferred by the Participant
         under this Plan, excluding, however, LTIP Deferral Benefits and (ii)
         amounts in excess of the limitation imposed by Code Section 401(a)(17)
         and (b) Compensation shall be deemed to exclude cash compensation which
         is paid for special perquisites, such as country club dues and company
         plane allowances. Notwithstanding the foregoing, cash allowances in
         lieu of general perquisites that are paid to substantially all
         Participants shall be included in the definition of Compensation
         hereunder."

                                    SECTION 2

         Section 5.4(a) of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read as
follows:

         "(a) The NACCO Industries, Inc. Benefits Committee (the "Committee")
may change (but not suspend) the earnings rate credited on Accounts under the
Plan at any time upon at least 30 days advance notice to Participants."

                                    SECTION 3

         Section 10.6(a) of the Plan is hereby amended by deleting the phrase
"the Committee" and replacing it with the phrase "the Company" each time it
appears therein.

                                               NACCO MATERIALS HANDLING
                                               GROUP, INC.

                                               By:/s/  Charles A. Bittenbender
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Date: June 5, 1999                                   Title:  Assistant Secretary
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                                                                Exhibit 10(lxxx)

                                 AMENDMENT NO. 2
                                     TO THE
                      NACCO MATERIALS HANDLING GROUP, INC.
                              UNFUNDED BENEFIT PLAN
               (AS AMENDED AND RESTATED EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1999)

         NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc. adopts this Amendment No. 2 to the
NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc. Unfunded Benefit Plan (As Amended and
Restated Effective January 1, 1999) (the "Plan"), effective September 1, 1999.
Words and phrases used herein with initial capital letters which are defined in
the Plan are used herein as so defined.

                                    SECTION 1

         Section 2.8 of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read as
follows:

         "SECTION 2.8. EMPLOYER shall mean the Company, NACCO Industries, Inc.,
NACCO Materials Handling Group, Ltd., NACCO Materials Handling, B.V. and NACCO
Materials Handling, S.r.l.

                                    SECTION 2

         Section 2.14(d) of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read
as follows:

         "(d) For purposes of Section 3.6 of the Plan, the term 'Participant'
means an Employee (i) who is a participant in the LTIP Plan, (ii) who, both at
the time the deferral election is required and at the time the deferral becomes
effective, is (a) a U.S. citizen, (b) a nonresident alien who is covered on a
U.S. payroll or (c) a citizen or resident of the United Kingdom (referred to
herein as the 'UK Participants') and (ii) whose total annual Compensation from
the Controlled Group for the Plan Year in which a deferral election is required
was at least $100,000."

                                    SECTION 3

         Sections 3.6(a) and 3.6(a)(i) of the Plan are hereby amended in their
entirety to read as follows:

         "(a) AMOUNT. Each Participant (as defined in Section 2.14(d)) may, with
the consent of the Company, by completing an approved deferral election form,
direct his Employer:

     (i) to reduce an Award (as that term is defined in the LTIP Plan)
payable under the LTIP Plan by a specified dollar amount or percentage and
thereby extinguish his entitlement under the LTIP Plan to so much of an Award as
is covered by the election form; and".

                                    SECTION 4

         Section 4.1(e) of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read as
follows:

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         "(e) Credits to an LTIP Deferral Sub-Account for the LTIP Deferral
Benefits described in Section 3.6, which shall be credited to the Sub-Account as
soon as practicable following the time the Award would otherwise be payable to
the Participant under the LTIP Plan."

                                    SECTION 5

         Section 6.1(a) of the Plan is hereby amended (a) by adding the phrase
"Subject to the provisions of the following sentence, " to the beginning
thereof, and (b) adding the following new sentence to the end thereof to read as
follows:

         "Notwithstanding the foregoing, a UK Participant shall always be 100%
         vested in the amounts credited to his LTIP Deferral Sub-Account but
         this does not give rise to any right or entitlement (whether legal,
         equitable or otherwise) to payment or distribution otherwise than in
         accordance with Article VII or Article VIII of the Plan."

                                    SECTION 6

         Section 9.2 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the following
provisions to the end thereof, to read as follows:

         "The amount standing to the credit of any UK Participant's Sub-Account
         is purely notional and affects only the calculation of benefits payable
         to or in respect of him. It does not give the UK Participant any right
         or entitlement (whether legal, equitable or otherwise) to any
         particular assets held for the purposes of the Plan or otherwise."

                                                NACCO MATERIALS HANDLING
                                                GROUP, INC.

                                                By:  /s/  Michael L. Smith
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Date: 10/8/99                                             Title: VP Finance
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                                                               Exhibit 10(lxxxi)

                                 AMENDMENT NO. 3
                                     TO THE
                      NACCO MATERIALS HANDLING GROUP, INC.
                              UNFUNDED BENEFIT PLAN
               (AS AMENDED AND RESTATED EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1999)

         NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc. adopts this Amendment No. 3 to the
NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc. Unfunded Benefit Plan (As Amended and
Restated Effective January 1, 1999) (the "Plan"), effective as of the close of
business on August 31, 1999. Words and phrases used herein with initial capital
letters which are defined in the Plan are used herein as so defined.

                                    SECTION 1

         Section 1.2 of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read as
follows:

         "SECTION 1.2. PURPOSE OF THE PLAN. The purpose of this Plan is (a) to
         allow certain employees to defer the receipt of certain long-term
         incentive compensation award payments, (b) to provide for certain
         Employees the benefits they would have received under the Qualified
         Plans but for (i) the dollar limitation on Compensation taken into
         account under the Qualified Plans as a result of Section 401(a)(17) of
         the Code, (ii) the limitations imposed under Section 415 of the Code,
         and (iii) the limitations under Sections 402(g), 401(k)(3) and 401(m)
         of the Code, and (c) to provide for the continued deferral of certain
         frozen benefits."

                                    SECTION 2

         Section 2.1 of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read as
follows:

         "SECTION 2.1. ACCOUNT shall mean the record maintained by the Employer
         in accordance with Section 4.1 as the sum of the Participant's Excess
         Profit Sharing Sub-Account, Excess 401(k) Sub-Account, Excess Matching
         Sub-Account, Excess Deferral Sub-Account, LTIP Deferral Sub-Account and
         Yale Short-Term Deferral Sub-Account."

                                    SECTION 3

         Section 2.9 of the Plan is hereby amended to add the words "Yale
Short-Term Deferral Benefit" following the words "LTIP Deferral Benefit"
therein.

                                    SECTION 4

         Section 2.14 of the Plan is hereby amended by renumbering Subsection
2.14(e) as Subsection 2.14(f) and by adding a new Subsection 2.14(e) thereto to
read as follows:

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         "(e) For purposes of Section 3.7 of the Plan, the term "Participant"
         means any person who was entitled to receive benefits under the Yale
         Short-Term Plan on August 31, 1999."

                                    SECTION 5

         A new Section 2.24 is hereby added to the Plan to read as follows:

         "SECTION 2.24. YALE SHORT-TERM PLAN shall mean the Yale Materials
         Handling Corporation Short-Term Incentive Compensation Deferral Plan, a
         plan that was frozen prior to 1992. The Yale Short-Term Plan was merged
         into the Plan effective August 31, 1999."

                                    SECTION 6

         The heading which states "SECTION 3.5. LTIP DEFERRAL BENEFITS." is
hereby deleted and replaced with the reading "SECTION 3.6. LTIP DEFERRAL
BENEFITS".

                                    SECTION 7

         A new Section 3.7 is hereby added to the Plan, immediately following
Section 3.6, to read as follows:

         "SECTION 3.7 YALE SHORT-TERM DEFERRAL BENEFITS.

         Prior to 1992, certain Employees of a corporate predecessor to the
Company were permitted to elect to defer specified amounts of their short-term
incentive compensation under the Yale Short-Term Plan. Effective August 31,
1999, the Yale Short-Term Plan was merged into the Plan and amounts credited
under the Yale Short-Term Plan were credited to the "Yale Short-Term Deferral
Sub-Account" hereunder.

                                    SECTION 8

         Section 4.1 of the Plan is hereby amended by renumbering Subsection
4.1(f) as 4.1(g) and 4.1(g) as 4.1(h) and by adding a new Subsection 4.2(f)
thereto to read as follows:

         "(f) Credits to Yale Short-Term Deferral Sub-Account for the Yale
         Short- Term Deferral Benefits described in Section 3.7."

                                    SECTION 9

         Section 5.2 of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read as
follows:

         "5.2 EARNINGS ON ADDITIONAL SUB-ACCOUNTS AND THE YALE SHORT-TERM
         DEFERRAL SUB-ACCOUNT. Subject to Section 5.4, at the end of each
         calendar month during the Plan Year, the Additional Excess Deferral
         Sub-Account, Additional Excess

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         401(k) Sub-Account, Additional Excess Matching Sub-Account and Yale
         Short-Term Deferral Sub-Account of each Participant shall be credited
         with an amount determined by multiplying such Participant's average
         Sub-Account balance during such month by the blended rate earned during
         such month by the Fixed Income Fund. The earnings calculation for the
         month in which the Participant receives a distribution from his
         Sub-Account shall be based on the blended rate earned during the
         preceding month by the Fixed Income Fund."

                                   SECTION 10

         Section 5.2 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the words "and Yale
Short-Term Deferral Sub-Account" after the words "Additional Excess Matching
Sub-Account" wherever such words shall appear therein.

                                   SECTION 11

         Section 6.1(a) of the Plan is hereby amended in its entirety to read as
follows:

         " (a) EXCESS DEFERRAL SUB-ACCOUNT, EXCESS 401(K) SUB-ACCOUNT, EXCESS
         MATCHING SUB-ACCOUNT, LTIP DEFERRAL SUB-ACCOUNT AND YALE SHORT-TERM
         SUB-ACCOUNT. Subject to the provisions of the following sentence, a
         Participant shall always be 100% vested in the amounts credited to his
         Excess Deferral Sub-Account, his Excess 401(k) Sub-Account, his Excess
         Matching Sub-Account, his LTIP Sub-Account and his Yale Short-Term
         Sub-Account hereunder.

                                   SECTION 12

         Section 7.1 of the Plan is hereby amended by renumbering Section 7.1(c)
as Section 7.1(d) and Section 7.1(d) as Section 7.1(e) and by adding a new
Section 7.1(c) to read as follows:

         "(c) YALE SHORT-TERM DEFERRAL SUB-ACCOUNT. The Yale Short-Term Deferral
         Sub-Account shall be commence to be paid to the Participant (i) in the
         form of five annual installments with each installment being based on
         the value of the Yale Short-Term Deferral Sub-Account on the Valuation
         Date on which such installment is to be paid and being a fraction of
         such value in which the numerator is one and the denominator is the
         total number of remaining installments to be paid, and (ii) commencing
         in the January following the date on which the Participant ceases to be
         an Employee of the Controlled Group."

                                   SECTION 13

         Section 8.1(c) of the Plan is hereby amended to read as follows:

         "the Beneficiary of a Participant for his Excess Deferral Benefits, his
         LTIP Deferral Benefits and his Yale Short-Term Deferral Benefits shall
         be his surviving spouse or, if none, his estate."

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                                   SECTION 14

         Section 8.3 of the Plan is hereby amended by adding the words "and Yale
Short-Term Deferral Benefit" after the words "LTIP Deferral Benefit" wherever
such words appear therein.

                  EXECUTED this 27TH day of AUGUST, 1999.

                                          NACCO MATERIALS HANDLING
                                          GROUP, INC.

Date: 8/27/99                             By:  /s/ Michael L. Smith
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                                              Title:VP Finance-Americas

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