Purchase of Own Secs.-Amendmt

SPIRAX-SARCO ENGINEERING PLC
20 September 1999

AMENDMENT

Purchase of own Securities

As part of its share repurchase programme, Spirax-Sarco Engineering Plc
announces that, on 14 and 15 September 1999, it purchased for cancellation
55,000 and 50,000 ordinary shares respectively from Merrill Lynch
International at a price of 593 pence per share.