I want to defer to subscribers to this list who are outside the United States, especially Canada and Australia. What was the reaction of carpenters to metrication? To what extent do they agree or disagree with Mr. Owen?
House building in Canada is still resulutely in imperial measures. It is carried out by high-school-educated men. Steel-framed commercial buildings are designed and built by university-educated persons. As far as I have been able to determine, these buildings are thoroughly metric. Bricks, concrete blocks and asphalt shingles are readily available in hard metric sizes.
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Joseph B. Reid
17 Glebe Road West
Toronto M5P 1C8 Telephone 416-486-6071
