SNR Senior Plc

RNS Number:5727B
Senior PLC
3 April 2001


                  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 ATTACHED LETTER (BELOW)

5)   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired.

6)   (     %) of issued Class

7)   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed

8)   (     %) of issued Class

9)   Class of security

10P ORDINARY SHARES

10)  Date of transaction


11)  Date company informed

3 APRIL 2001

12)  Total holding following this notification

59,975,181
               
13)  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification

19.511%

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

L GRANT

     Date of Notification ..... 3 APRIL 2001 ....



LETTER TO: SENIOR PLC



SENIOR PLC
10p ORDINARY SHARES ("SHARES")

We write to advise you that we, Schroder Investment Management Limited, have an
interest  in  54,755,849  shares which we held in portfolios  managed  by  us 
on  a discretionary basis for clients under investment management agreements.

Included in this figure are:-

(i) 21,680,588 shares registered or to be registered in the name of
our wholly-owned subsidiary nominee company, Schroder Nominees Limited
(Schroder Nominees),

(ii) 14,179,953 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 Chase Nominees Limited.

(iii) 18,895,308 shares neither registered nor to be registered in  the
name  of  Schroder  Nominees  Limited. The registration  details  are  shown  on
schedule A (below).

An  affiliated  company,  SIM North America Inc (SIMNA Inc),  is  managing  (a)
portfolio(s) on a discretionary basis holding a further 4,500,000 shares  which
are registered or to be registered in the name of Chase Nominees Limited.

Another affiliated company, Schroder Hermes, is managing 719,332 shares  in  (a)
portfolio(s)  on  a passive (index tracker) basis for clients  under  investment
management  agreements. These shares are registered or to be registered  in  the
name of Chase Nominees Limited.

We  believe  that  we and our subsidiary and affiliated companies are therefore,
interested in an overall aggregate of 59,975,181 shares, representing some
19.511% of the total number of shares in  issue, namely 307,380,913 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, Schroder Hermes 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 
SIMNA Inc, Schroder Hermes and ourselves.

We shall  be grateful if  you will kindly let us  have  a  copy  of  your
notification  to the Stock Exchange and if you will also  confirm  the total
number of shares currently in issue. 

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, or

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

(iii)  an authorised insurance company.


LETTER FROM: SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED




                               SCHEDULE A

                      SENIOR ENGINEERING GROUP PLC

                           10p ORDINARY SHARES

           REGISTRATION                                     AMOUNT

           Bank of New York                               1,150,000
           British Coal Staff Superannuation a/c: P       2,177,028
           Chase Nominees Limited                         3,844,000
           Mineworkers' Pension Scheme a/c: R               936,280
           MSS Nominees Limited a/c: 766653               1,579,000
           MSS Nominees Limited a/c: 767412                  70,000
           MSS Nominees Limited a/c: 809955                 402,000
           Nortrust Nominees Limited                      2,300,000
           RBSTB Nominees Limited                         1,267,000
           RBSTB Nominees Limited a/c: AAUKPS               100,000
           State Street Nominees Ltd a/c: 4L9Q              500,000
           State, Street Nominees Limited a/c: JD19       3,250,000
           State Street Nominees Limited a/c: 5H57        1,320,000

                                                         18,895,308

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