Purchase of Own Securities

Spirax-Sarco Engineering PLC
9 December 1999

                                                                              
                                                                              
                         Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc                         

As part of its share repurchase programme, Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc
announces that, on 9 December 1999, it purchased for cancellation 762,617
ordinary shares from Merrill Lynch International at a price of 446 pence per
share.