Marcus, in USMA 21377, wrote a strong rebuttal of USMA 21374 in which I
presented the South African case for the use of the millimetre in
engineering and architectural drawings. Albert J. Mettler carried out an
internatioinal survey of metric practice in 1976. Albert, with a Swiss
background, farvored the centimetre but reported:
Countries not using the centimetre
engineers architects
Europe
Austria 1) X
Czechoslovakia X
Denmark 1) X X
Germany X
Greece X
Hungary X
Italy X
Luxemburg X X
Norway 1) X X
Poland X
Sweden 1) X
Switzerland X
Yugoslavia X
Africa
Botswana 2) X X
Cameroon x X
Mauritius 2) X X
South Africa 2) X X
Sudan X X
Zimbabwe 2) X X
Asia
Cyprus X
India X
Iraq X
Philippines X
Central America
Cuba X X
El Salvador X
1) standards institutes with rather puristic approach
2) recent converts to metric system with limited use of cm.
Joseph B.Reid
17 Glebe Road West
Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
