Purchase of Own Securities

SOLID STATE SUPPLIES PLC
15 October 1999


SOLID STATE SUPPLIES PLC

The Directors of Solid State Supplies PLC intend to seek the authority of
shareholders to allow the Company to purchase its Ordinary Shares on the Stock
Exchange.  Further details, together with a notice of the necessary
resolutions and extraordinary general meeting, will be sent to shareholders
with the interim report.

This press announcement has been released by English Trust Company Limited on
behalf of Solid State Supplies PLC