Treasury Stock

Spectris plc

                          Transfer of Treasury Shares                          

Spectris plc announces that on 29 July 2009, the following ordinary shares have
been transferred from treasury stock for the purposes of employee share option
allotments under the Spectris 1996 Executive Share Plan:

512 shares at 395.731 pence per share

Following the above transfer, the total number of Spectris plc ordinary shares
in issue (excluding the total of 9,601,464 ordinary shares now held in
treasury) is 115,403,659.

Enquiries:

Spectris plc

Robert Martin

Deputy Company Secretary

01784 470 470