Kilopascal wrote in USMA 20180:

>Besides metric (ISO) thread sizes, I can think of Inch-coarse, Inch-fine,
>NPT, NPS, and Withworth.  I don't know if Withworth also comes in coarse and
>fine.  But, my guess is, Withworth is obsolete, except for replacement on
>old machines.  I'm sure Withworth has been replaced by metric.  Who knows,
>maybe each country had there own sizes, until ISO-metric eliminated all of
>them except, of course, the American ones.


My memory from working England in 1940 was that Whitworth, British Standard
Fine and Britrish Association were the common thread sizes.

Joseph B.Reid
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