Directors' Notification of Dealing in Shares, etc

Transense Technologies PLC
29 March 2000


PLACING OF ORDINARY SHARES

On  Tuesday,  28  March, in order to  satisfy  identified
demand, the executive Directors of Transense Technologies
plc  and  certain  other persons were released  from  the
Standstill  Agreement described in the Placing  and  Open
Offer  Document  dated 29 November  1999  and  issued  in
connection with the Company's Admission to AIM  and  have
sold shares in the Company as follows:

                    Holding  Holding   PercentagePercentage
                    Before    After      Held       Held
                    Placing  Placing    Before     After
                                        Placing   Placing
JAH       100,000   543,413  453,413     4.70      3.86
Perry
A         100,000   725,409  625,409     6.31      5.45
Lonsdale
B         100,000   705,409  605,409     6.14      5.27
Lonsdale
A J       100,000   535,409  435,409     4.66      3.79
Ingham
G         48,764    153,136  104,372     1.33      0.91
Jarrett
J George  10,000    80,000    70,000     0.69      0.61
                                                     
Total     458,764  2,742,776 2,294,012  23.83%    19.89%
                               

All  of  these shares were sold at 2130p and were  placed
with  institutional clients of HSBC Investment Bank  plc,
together   with   a  further  675,000  shares   sold   by
institutional  and  other clients of Astaire  &  Partners
Limited,  bringing  the aggregate number  of  shares  the
subject of this placing to 1,133,764.

Prior  to  the transaction above described, options  were
exercised  over a total of 370,396 new 10 pence  ordinary
shares  at  various prices by a former  Director  and  by
SmarTire Systems, Inc.  Of the shares arising from  these
option  exercises, 275,000 formed part  of  the  placing.
Application will be made forthwith for all of the  shares
resulting form the option exercises above to be  admitted
to AIM, and dealings in these shares are expected to have
commenced by Monday, 3 April.

Following  these sales, the executive Directors  and  the
certain  other  persons  have  signed  a  new  Standstill
Agreement by which they have undertaken not to dispose of
any  Ordinary shares in the Company prior to 31  December
2001,  without the prior consent of the Nominated Adviser
and  Nominated Broker save inter alia, certain  transfers
to  family members, disposals due to an intervening court
order,  or  a  take-over offer relating  to  the  Company
becoming or being declared unconditional, or the death of
the party to the Standstill Agreement.


For further information:

Transense Technologies plc         James Perry  01869 238 030
Nabarro Wells & Co. Ltd            Keith Smith  0207 710 7400
Astaire & Partners Limited         Desmond Chapman  0207 332 2600
HSBC Investment Bank plc           John Mellett  0207 336 9000
Clerkenwell Communications         John Coyle  0207 713 0900