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Speedy Hire PLC 4 May 2005 Letter to: Speedy Hire PLC Dated: 3 May 2005 5p ORDINARY SHARES ('SHARES') We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an interest in 5,983,985 shares which are held in portfolios managed by us on a discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements. Included in this figure are:- (i) 2,927,000 shares held in (a) unit trust(s) operated and managed by an affiliated company, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited (SUTL), and registered or to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited, (ii) 3,056,985 shares neither registered nor to be registered in the name of Schroder Nominees. The registration details are shown on the enclosed schedule. An affiliated company, Schroder Investment Management North America Limited (SIMNA Ltd), is managing (a) portfolio(s) on a similar basis holding a further 800,418 shares which are registered or to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited. We believe that we, our subsidiary and affiliated company are therefore interested in an overall aggregate of 6,784,403 shares, representing some 15.909% of the total number of shares in issue, namely 42,646,300. This notification is made to you:- (a) in respect of our interest as investment, (b) on behalf of SIMNA Ltd and SUTL in relation to the interests they are treated as having respectively under the Companies Act 1985 (the Act), and (c) on behalf of Schroders plc., our holding company, which is treated as having an interest in all of the above shares under the Act by virtue of its ownership of SIMNA Ltd, SUTL and ourselves. From: Schroder Investment Management Limited 5P ORDINARY SHARES SCHEDULE REGISTRATION AMOUNT Banque Internationale a Luxembourg S 46,679 British Coal Staff Superannuation a/c: P 1,000,000 Chase Nominees Limited 466,898 Mineworkers' Pension Scheme a/c: R 1,265,408 Nortrust Nominees Limited 270,000 Unibank Torvegade 8,000 3,056,985 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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