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[traction39]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/9758494/EU-backs-down-over-threat-to-classic-cars.html

[clan chieftain]

Common sense HAS prevailed.
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The Clan Chieftain

[JC T ONE]

Good to hear


Now we only need to get that EU sheit closed, once & for all.


could be nice to see what happened if there was a vote today about it
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[Bitumen Boy]

[Penman]

Hi
I don't like to explode urban myths, BUT that is what the bendy banana was, started by the UK press, possibly the D Mail or Torygraph.

and the EU didn't require the metrication of shop weights and measures, that was adecision the UK government.

UK had a derogation on that just as they have on certain regulations re- the driving of some vehicle categories.
ie I have grandfather rights on cat D1 with restriction 101(not for hire or reward) but that only applies in the UK.
If I wanted to drive a cat D1 in other EU countries I would have to pass the vocational cat D1 test, even a privately owned minibus requires a vocational licence elsewhere in europe.
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Bristols should always come in pairs.

Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
V8 V10

[baconsdozen]

Enforced metrication?
I just ignore it.
It will never catch on anyway.
Feet and inches rule!
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Thirty years selling imperial hand tools for old machinery(Now happily retired).

[welshrover]

[Bitumen Boy]

Absolutely. I don't know how it is, but young people who have only ever been taught metric at school still think imperial - like it's in their DNA or something. This futility is ironically why enforced metrication has been a bad thing, because pretty much everyone has to convert to real money to understand anything, and it's easy for errors to creep in whilst doing so. If it was a UK government decision then they only got away with it by blaming the EU, and as for the bendy bananas, I read it in the Sun* so it must be right... right?



*I can't believe that I used to buy that rag every day, but in my defence, you couldn't find page 3 girls online back then

[Richard H]

I remember doing woodwork at school. There was a man behind a counter who dished out materials and he wouldn't give you anything unless you measured in MM. I remember asking for a 6" length of wood and being told to go away and come back when I'd measured it in metric. I know they are trying to promote modern engineering practices but that really annoyed me for some reason.
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Richard Hughes

[Mog]

Australia went metric in 1966. I do not have a problem with that, but why, oh why, are they allowed to advertise t.v.'s as 42 inches etc. even to day. How can the young people understand that ?

[Riley Blue]

To get back to the topic. It only ever was a draft document, circulated for consultation. When the consultation resulted in objections, it was revised - democracy in action

[emmerson]

I needed a piece of skirting board one Sunday morning. Down to a builders merchant I'd not used before."Can I have 42inches of skirting please" "We only sell it by the metre" "Then can I have two metres please, and how much is it?"

Deadpan reply " Thirty bob a foot".

Metric? what's metric?

[poodge]

"allowed to advertise t.v.'s as 42 inches"
And why,pray tell,is that measurement diagionally across the screen?Seems like false advertising to me.

[traction39]

I suppose it harks back to the old tubes that were circular. Placing a rectangular/square cover over the front to create a "screen" would represent the diameter in view i.e. corner to corner.
Besides 42" in much smaller than 1066mm and fits on the wall better
NASA knows all about different units...