Purchase of Own Securities

Spirax-Sarco Engineering PLC
2 December 1999

                                       
                         Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc                         

As part of its share repurchase programme, Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc
announces that, on 2 December 1999, it purchased for cancellation 50,000
ordinary shares from Merrill Lynch International at a price of 465 pence per
share.