Ie. spending an eternity in that never-never land somewhere between British Mixture Units and SI. Duncan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: December 20, 2000 17:20 >On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:21:54 -0500, "Gregory Peterson" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Many just want to wrongly believe that imperial is better and they'll spread this >>nonsense without question. > >As we've seen in the UK. > >Our library at work has a number of old documents from the early >stages of metrication. One book from 1970 (written 1969) is called >Teach Yourself Industrial Metrication (a real snappy title, eh?). One >small quote from it: > >"The continued delay by Central Government could lead to relaxing of >pressure within Industry. If this happens then we could drift along >with a hotch-potch, half-metric, half-Imperial, mixture of systems for >some years after 1975". > >I need say no more! > >Chris >-- >Metrication information: http://www.metric.org.uk/ >UK legislation, EC Directives, Trading Standards links and more >Pro-metric mailing list now available. >
