Joe and all,
I will reiterate my story about the estimator (at a concrete block and brick
mason subcontractor for which I did some accounting last year) was from
Liberia. He worked there for a Swedish company and all of his work,
including the blueprints from which he worked, were in metric. He admitted
that there was still plenty of FFU around but he was very prometric. He
wished that the US would just change and have it over with so that he could
work with it all the time.
Ironically, the owner of the subcontracting company came from Mexico 15-20
years ago and acted as if he had forgotten everything that he had ever
learned about metric. He expressed fear of ever having to change to metric
in the US.
Norm Werling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 2001March30 17:00
Subject: [USMA:11965] Myanmar and Liberia
> The 2001 Mar-Apr issue of Metric Today quotes Michael Milstein to the
> effect that Liberia and Myanmar have not gone metric. I have tried to
find
> the situation in these countries through the Internet. My conclusion is
> that, although these coungtries can not afford to be members of the Bureau
> International des Poids et Mesures, they are going metric as fast as they
> can subject to their financial constraints. Travellers to Myanmar report
> distance signs in kilometres. Liberia is surrounded by countries that
have
> been metric for a long time. The statistics that I have found about
> Liberia have been entirely metric. My conclusion is that the United
States
> is the only country holding out against SI.
>
> Joseph B. Reid
> 17 Glebe Road West
> Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
>
