Treasury Stock

Spectris plc

                          Transfer of Treasury Shares                          

Spectris plc announces that on 18 March 2008, the following ordinary shares
have been transferred from treasury stock for the purposes of employee share
option allotments under the Spectris 1988 Executive Share Option Scheme:

1,538 shares at 238.8032 pence per share

Following the above transfer, the total number of Spectris plc ordinary shares
in issue (excluding the total of 9,701,766 ordinary shares now held in
treasury) is 115,303,357.

Enquiries:

Spectris plc

Robert Martin, Deputy Company Secretary