Treasury Stock

Spectris plc

                          Transfer of Treasury Shares                          

Spectris plc announces that on 8 October 2010, the following ordinary shares
were transferred from treasury stock for the purposes of employee share option
allotments under the 1996 Executive Share Plan and the 1999 Executive Share
Option Scheme:

1,000 shares at 525 pence per share (1996 Plan)

1,130 shares at 525 pence per share (1999 Scheme)

Following the above transfer, the total number of Spectris plc ordinary shares
in issue (excluding the total of 9,116,427 ordinary shares now held in
treasury) is 115,888,696.

Enquiries:

Spectris plc

Robert Martin

Deputy Company Secretary

01784 470 470