Holding(s) in Company

Weir Group PLC
29 January 2002

Letter to Weir Group Plc

12.5p ORDINARY SHARES ('SHARES')

We write to advise you that while we, Schroder Investment Management Limited,
continue to have an interest in the above-mentioned shares, it has ceased to be
a notifiable interest for the purposes of Part VI of the Companies Act 1985 (the
Act) since it represents less than 10% of the nominal value of that relevant
share capital, which we understand to be 202,318,465 shares.

This notification is made to you in respect of our own interest as investment
managers and also on behalf of:-

(a) Schroder Unit Trusts Limited, our wholly-owned subsidiary,

(b) Schroder Investment Management North America Limited, another wholly-owned
    subsidiary,

(c) Schroder Investment Management North America Inc., an affiliated company,
    and

(d) Schroders plc., our holding company,

in relation to any interests they may have or be treated as having respectively
under the Act.

Letter from Schroder Investment Management Limited




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