On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:34:09 -0400, "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jim Elwell wrote in USMA 22542: >> >>If customers hate buying in pounds, if he has obsolete equipment, if >>he wants to still "ride a horse," why do we need to prosecute him? >> >>He will go out of business on his own. >> > >Canadian experience indicate that this won't happen. And if you read The Weights and Measures of England (R D Connor) you will find several examples of (now long obsolete) units that required the law to be further strengthened because traders continued to use them. Chris -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
