Dear Han, When you write to Peugeot, you might ask:
1 Do they propose to revert their factories to feet, inches, and fractions of inches? 2 Have they done a cost / benefit analysis of their idea of not using standards of measurement in their manufacturing - basing instead their measures on historical names? 3 Have they calculated the costs of re-randomisation of their units of measurement? 4 Have they alerted their shareholders to the increased costs for the re-inchification and re-mileisation policies of their company? 5 Or is it simply a few innumerate (but historically literate) folk in the public relations department who have gone feral and are no longer in the control of Peugeot engineers? Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia Pat Naughtin is the editor of the free online newsletter, 'Metrication matters'. You can subscribe by sending an email containing the words subscribe Metrication matters to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- on 2004-06-12 22.15, Han Maenen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Terry, > > Have you also seen Peugeot scooters? This company is on my blacklist, > because they sell scooters in metric countries with dual km/h and mph > speedometers, which > I think is absolutely ridiculous. If you see one, what do their speedometers > in Britain show? > Soon I am going to ask Peugeot whether they have found out whether the EU > has secret plans to abandon the metric system (acting the ignorant), and if > that is the reason for these dual speedometers to prepare us for the day of > joy when ifp makes its debut. > Today we see Peugeot scooters with dual speedometers, to-morrow they may > well start with cars in metric countries. > Peugeot has misbehaved with units before. In 1978 they sabotaged the > adoption of the kilowatt by only using the continental horsepower in their > ads, before that they used the SAE-gross marketing horsepower and in 1984 > the same company used the British horsepower in a Dutch ad as on one of > their cars wore the inscription 110 BHP. > > With friends like these, who needs enemies? > > Han > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Terry Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, 2004-06-08 20:47 > Subject: [USMA:30083] Scooter manufacturer provides metric prominent > speedometer in UK and USA > > >> I saw a UK specification Piaggio/Vespa scooter with a speedometer that had > a dial speedometer with km/h on the outside (larger font) and mph on the > inside (smaller font. >> >> This also applies in the US. Click on the dashboard image in the following > website. >> >> http://www.vespausa.com/products/gt.cfm >
