RNS Number:9218B
Senior PLC
3 December 1999


                  DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS


1)   NAME OF COMPANY


SENIOR PLC

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST


SCHRODERS PLC

3)   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of 
     holding of the Shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a 
     non-beneficial interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a
     holding of that person's spouse or children under the age of 18


SHAREHOLDER NAMED IN 2 ABOVE

4)   Name of the registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the 
     number of shares held by each of them.



5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.



6)   ( N/A %) of issued Class

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed



8)   ( N/A %) of issued Class

9)   Class of security

10P ORDINARY SHARES

10)  Date of transaction



11)  Date company informed

3/12/99


12)  Total holding following this notification


59,298,591               
              
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification


19.3%

14)  Any additional information



15)  Name of contact and telephone number for queries


L GRANT
01923 714712

16)  Name and signature of authorised company official responsible for 
     making this notification

     Date of Notification ...3/12/99.........



LETTER TO SENIOR PLC


SENIOR ENGINEERING GROUP PLC
10p ORDINARY SHARES ("SHARES")

We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an
interest in 56,448,591 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)  29,833,560 shares registered or to be registered in the name of our
     wholly-owned subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees Limited
     (Schroder Nominees),

(ii) 11,183,869 shares held in (a) unit trust(s) operated and managed by
     another wholly-owned subsidiary, Schroder Unit Trusts Limited (SUTL), and
     registered or to be registered in the name of Popeshead Nominees Limited
     (Popeshead), and

(iii) 15,431,162 shares neither registered nor to be registered in the name of
      Schroder Nominees or Popeshead. The registration details are shown in the
      schedule A.


An affiliated company, SIM North America Inc, (SIMNA Inc), is managing (a)
portfolio(s) on a discretionary basis holding a further 2,850,000 shares.  The
registration details are shown on Schedule B.


We believe that we and our subsidiary and affiliated companies are therefore
interested in an overall aggregate of 59,298,591 shares, representing some
19.30% of the total number of shares in issue, namely 307,302,469 shares.

This notification is made to you: -


(a) in respect of our interest as investment managers and also by virtue of the
    fact that we are the parent company of SUTL.

(b) on behalf of SIMNA Inc 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 Inc and ourselves.

   In addition, please let us know whether your company or any of its          
subsidiaries is either: -

(i) authorised by any of the Financial Services Act 1986 (FSA) regulators,      
   namely IMRO, PIA or SFA, or by any regulator in the European Union outside   
  the United Kingdom,

(ii) a listed money market institution under Section 43 FSA.

Letter from Paul Martin, (Compliance Manager), Schroder Investment Management
Limited


                     SCHEDULE A

                
                 10p ORDINARY SHARES

REGISTRATION                                           AMOUNT

BT Globenet Nominees Limited A/C: 6B                    227,500
Chase Nominees Limited                                2,160,153
MSS Nominees Limited A/C. 809955                        250,000
MSS Nominees Limited A/C: 767412                         70,000
MSS Nominees Limited A/C: 766653                      2,030,000
MSS Nominees Limited A/C: 786653                        225,000
Nortrust Nominees Limited A/C: SRC13                    100,000
Nortrust Nominees Limited                             2,900,000
RBSTB Nominees Limited                                  634,920
Royal Bank of Scotland Edinburgh 
Nominees Limited A/C:                                 1,000,000
GUD2
MSS Nominees Ltd A/C: 846435                            150,000
Mineworkers Pension Scheme (Client) Nominees Limited R: 786,280
A/C
Nutraco Nominees Limited                                 70,000
State Street Nominees Limited A/C: JD 19              1,750,000
British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme (Client) 
Nominees                                              1,827,028
Limited P: A/C
Schroder Executor & Trustee Co Ltd                      325,000
RBSTB Nominees Limited A/C: ESPSBEB                     231,781
RBSTB Nominees Limited A/C: AAUKPS                      100,000
RBS Trust Bank Nominees Ltd, A/C Sunpen                   8,500
MSS Nominees Ltd. A/C: 759,371                           85,000
State Street Nominees Ltd A/C: 4L9Q                     500,000
                                                     15,431,162


SCHEDULE B
SENIOR PLC

10P ORDINARY SHARES

Registration                                          Amount

Chase Nominees Limited                               2,850,000
                                                     2,850,000


END

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