Purchase of Own Securities

SPIRAX - SARCO ENGINEERING PLC
8 October 1999



                         Spirax-Sarco Engineering Plc                         

As part of its share repurchase programme, Spirax-Sarco Engineering Plc
announces that, on 8 October 1999, it purchased for cancellation 186,000
ordinary shares from Merrill Lynch International at a price of 520 pence per
share.