Ma Be's USMA 17641 moved me to think of replying "Put your money where your mouth is", but I found that James Freysinger in his excvellent USMA 17638 had already said it.
Ma Be wrote: > What happened to that effort that was shared with us in the automotive >industry? Something that was vehicled here a few years ago? What >happened to that? Did the authorities give up on that? The automotive and agricultural machinery industries went metric about 20 years ago because it was much easier, and much more efficient, to convert their American production to metric than to convert their world wide factories to inch-pound. They don't mention this in their publications for the American market because they are interested in selling cars, not in promoting the metric system. But ask any motor car mechanic if American cars are metric. The authorities were not asked since the metric system has been legal in the USA since 1866. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 TEL. 416-486-6071
