Director/PDMR Shareholding

Spectris plc                                  

                   Announcement to the London Stock Exchange                   

                                  CORRECTION                                   

This notification is made in accordance with DTR 3.1.4(1)(a) and LR 12.6.4.

On 10 March 2011, awards granted under the Spectris Performance Share Plan
("Plan") to certain directors and persons discharging managerial
responsibilities were exercised, as announced by the Company on 10 March 2011.

A number of individuals (where noted below) sold a proportion of the shares
acquired to fund their tax liabilities. The disposals were made on the London
Stock Exchange.

      Name           Total     Number of   Number of   Number of    Price per  
                   number of    shares      shares      shares        share    
                    shares     retained    disposed   disposed to  received on 
                   exercised                          satisfy tax disposal (p) 
                                                      liabilities              
                                                                               
 Roger Stephens     23,851       5,000       6,730      12,121      1410.1239  
                                                                               
  Clive Watson      36,509      19,500      17,009        NIL       1419.5733  

The above awards were satisfied using treasury shares. In total 60,360 treasury
shares were transferred from the Company's treasury reserves.

Following the above transfer, the total number of Spectris plc ordinary shares
in issue (excluding the total of 8,994,039 ordinary shares now held in
treasury) is 116,011,084.

Name of contact and telephone number for queries:

Robert Martin

Deputy Company Secretary

01784 470 470

For and on behalf of Spectris plc

Date: 16 March 2011