RNS Number:0787L
Senior PLC
23 May 2000


                  DEALINGS BY SUBSTANTIAL SHAREHOLDERS


1)   NAME OF COMPANY

     SENIOR PLC

2)   NAME OF SHAREHOLDER HAVING A MAJOR INTEREST

     SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED

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.

     SEE LETTER BELOW

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

     23 MAY 2000

12)  Total holding following this notification

     61,189,733
              
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

     19.907%

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  23 MAY 2000...........



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 58,339,733 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)  28,382,224 shares registered or to be registered in the name of our
     wholly-owned subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees Limited
     (Schroder Nominees),

(ii) 764,000 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) 29,193,509 shares neither registered nor to be registered in the name of
      Schroder Nominees or Popeshead. The registration details are shown on
      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 61,189,733 shares, representing some
19.907% of the total number of shares in issue, namely 307,380,913.

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.


FROM:    PAUL MARTIN
         (COMPLIANCE MANAGER)
         SCHRODERS


                             SCHEDULE A
     
                      SENIOR ENGINEERING GROUP PLC

                         10p ORDINARY SHARES

REGISTRATION                                           AMOUNT

BT Globenet Nominees Limited A/C: 6B                  227,500
Chase Nominees Limited                             16,205,900
MSS Nominees Limited A/C: 809955                      402,000
MSS Nominees Limited A/C: 767412                       70,000
MSS Nominees Limited A/C: 766653                    2,030,000
Nortrust Nominees Limited A/C SRC13                   100,000
Nortrust Nominees Limited                           2,900,000
RBSTB Nominees Limited                              1,494,520
MSS Nominees Ltd A/C: 846435                          150,000
Mineworkers Pension Scheme (Client)                   786,280
Nominees Limited R: A/C
State Street Nominees Limited A/C: JD19             1,750,000
British Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme (Client)
Nominees Limited P: A/C                             1,827,028
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
                                                   ----------
                                                   29,193,509
                                                   ==========



                             SCHEDULE B
     
                      SENIOR ENGINEERING GROUP PLC

                         10p ORDINARY SHARES



REGISTRATION                              AMOUNT

Chase Nominees Limited                    2,850,000
                                          ---------
                                          2,850,000
                                          =========

END

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