Purchase of Own Securities

SPIRAX-SARCO ENGINEERING PLC
13 September 1999



Spirax-Sarco Engineering Plc

Purchase of own Securities

As part of its share repurchase programme, Spirax-Sarco Engineering Plc
announces that, on 10 September 1999, it purchased for cancellation 30,000
ordinary shares from Merrill Lynch International at a price of 595 pence per
share.