Metrics were a big deal in the early 70s, as I can recall having hard core teaching of the metric system in my formative years. I was a huge science nerd, and I can remember doing all the physics experiments and having to measure in kilos and Newton meters and the like.
-D > On Jan 1, 2020, at 12:14 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Not in the 50s and 60s when McNamara put the kabosh in it. Not in the 70s > and 80s when his replacements ran GM and put the Kaybosh on it. Metric crept > slowly inta GM when they first started playing with toada. I don't have > enough fingers and toes to count how may times i heard "the US will convert > to metric by 19xx." And none of it came to pass. Gm and McNamara were the > prime adversaries. > > >> tyee165 via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> January 1, 2020 at 9:31 AM >> But GM vehicles are metric aren't they? Apologies for silly long post.Have >> not figured out how to easily delete extraneous wording on this tablet. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
