I was working with the public records of the village of Beuningen, west of Nijmegen, yesterday. And I found something that happened in 1945. That would have been something for the BWMA and the UKIP! British troops were there in March of that year. They needed an area of land for their use, so it was requisitioned. The commander, Captain Greenway, had the requisition form, dated March 7, drawn up; it was in two languages. He wanted to use land measuring 3600 square yards. No metric. There was also a sketch of the area with a metric scale 1:25 000 but the area af land was again 3600 square yards only.
Han Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
