2002-10-10 Mike,
What clothes sizing system is used in Australia? Do you use a metric based system or is it still inch based? Do you see Australia adopting this new standard? John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2002-10-10 19:52 Subject: [USMA:22611] Voluntary metrication > On 2002-10-07, Markus wrote: > > > that an employee of Marks & Spencer (Jerry Dunleavy) was one of the > driving forces behind getting many large European clothes retailer > chains to work together on the new measurement-based metric labeling > standard. > ********* > > Now, wouldn't it be great if there was a US equivalent of Jerry Dunleavy? > This is what we need, and thereby avoiding the need to have a major > disaster to force change. > > I know that the NIST and USMA guys are doing a tremendous job, but they are > swimming in treacle. > > If anyone knows of a US equivalent of JD then let's have his name and > address, so we can all give him a tremendous BOOST! > > This would counteract our enemy no.1 (Rupert Murdoch) who is doing so much > to prevent his papers and media in the US from using SI units. > > Best regards > > Mike Joy > Perth, Australia > > >
