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Speedy Hire PLC 5 August 2003 Letter to Speedy Hire Plc Dated 5 August 2003 5p ORDINARY SHARES ('SHARES') We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an interest in 5,742,417 shares which are held in portfolios managed by us on a discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements. Included in this figure are:- (i) 3,685,282 shares held in (a) unit trust(s) operated and managed by an affiliated company, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited (SUTL), and registered or to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited and, (ii) 2,057,135 shares neither registered nor to be registered in the name of Schroder Nominees. The registration details are shown on the schedule below. An affiliated company, Schroder Investment Management North America Inc (SIMNA Inc), is managing (a) portfolio(s) on a similar basis holding a further 284,864 shares which are registered or to be registered in the name of JP Morgan. We believe that we, our subsidiary and affiliated company are therefore interested in an overall aggregate of 6,027,281 shares, representing some 14.151% of the total number of shares in issue, namely 42,593,678. This notification is made to you:- (a) in respect of our interest as investment, (b) on behalf of SIMNA Inc and SUTL in relation to the interests they are treated as having respectively under the Companies Act 1985 (the Act), and (c) on behalf of Schroders plc., our holding company, which is treated as having an interest in all of the above shares under the Act by virtue of its ownership of SIMNA Inc, SUTL and ourselves. 5P ORDINARY SHARES SCHEDULE REGISTRATION AMOUNT Chase Nominees Limited 200,000 British Coal Staff Superannuation a/c: P 823,435 Mineworkers' Pension Scheme a/c: R 433,700 Imperial Pensions Nominees Limited 350,000 BT Globenet Nominees Ltd a/c: 6B 250,000 2,057,135 Letter from Schroder Investment Management Limited This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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