Holding(s) in Company

Speedy Hire PLC
16 August 2005

To: Speedy Hire Plc
Dated: 5 August 2005


5p ORDINARY SHARES ('SHARES')

We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an
interest in 5,476,902 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) 2,500,000 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) 2,976,902 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
793,118 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 6,270,020 shares, representing some
14.665% of the total number of shares in issue, namely 42,753,765.

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:  Katy Creagh-Osborne
       Compliance
       Schroder Investment Management Limited


                                 5P ORDINARY SHARES
 
                                     SCHEDULE

REGISTRATION                                                    AMOUNT

Banque Internationale a Luxembourg S                            16,463
British Coal Staff Superannuation a/c: P                     1,000,000
Chase Nominees Limited                                         405,000
Mineworkers' Pension Scheme a/c: R                           1,265,408
Nortrust Nominees Limited                                      250,000
Unibank Torvegade                                                8,000
                                                             2,976,902




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