Fellow Shadow Watchers,
As a teacher within the UK educational system I
went entirely metric from the late 60's. If school examinations were to
be exclusively metric there was no choice. Everything in Imperial
Measure was ruthlessly discarded; not a rod, pole, perch, peck or bushel
in sight: and so I remained until retirement.
Left to myself I've reverted to 'use whatever is most convenient mode'
with feet and inches for 'human scale meaurements' and millimetres for
most small things in the workshop. Centimeters were banned from
secondary schools and that taboo has stuck.
There's a FAX from my metal supplier on my desk this minute quoting for
Brass CZ108 1/2 hard 1 off 480mm x 175mm x 5/8" and this 30-ish years
after Imperial measurements were supposed to have been discarded.
The US of course still use Queen Anne's gallon which the Imperial system
replaced with a larger unit later on. We often forget this when
comparing fuel prices.
The big bit of brass?....it's for 'the world's first aggressive gnomon'!!
Tony Moss
