[USMA:27368] Re: Car brochures in U K

[Mighty Chimp]

My point was not to offend anyone either.  But, to point out that the enemies of metric aren't wasting time discussing what unit should be used to measure angles, times, fuel consumption, etc.  They are discussing what companies they can contact and insist they revert back to imperial.  They go to the shops and harass the employees in to selling in imperial.  How effective they are, I can't tell.   This is what we should be doing, but in reverse.  We should be discussing what companies to write to, what to say that can be effective.  A lot of these companies claim the sizes they chose for their products are the result of market forces.  Well, we need to be the market force that influences these companies to adopt metric sizing.  In our jobs, we need to be a force behind metrication.  If we work in design and engineering, we need to influence the design along metric lines.  We need to recommend metric parts.  If we work in manufacturing, we need to offer sound advice to the engineers who design in imperial, that our job would be easier if they went metric.   We can be an influence, but only if we want to.  And if we don't want to, then we have no one to blame but ourselves when imperial starts to gain ground again.   Euric    ----- Original Message ----- From: john mercer To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Thursday, 2003-10-30 20:56 Subject: [USMA:27365] Car brochures in U K Hello everyone.  Could someone tell me in the U K if you get a brochure on a new car do they give the dimentions of the car such as length width height and weight in imperial or metric or both?  In Canada most car companys in brochures give the dimentions in both, the metric first and then the imperial.  Honda and Kia in their brochures give all dimentions and weight in metric only.  In the U K if you buy a bag of potatoes is the bag weighed in kg or lbs?  About a month ago Doreen bought a bag of potatoes from the states that were imported to Canada.  It was a ten lb bag, but it also had the kg on the lable.  I read the posting that Mighty Chimp put on the site this afternoon.  In some ways I agree with him, when he says that we talk about things that really don't matter.  In my opinion to change the second is never going to happen.  There are muc more pressing things to work on if we ever want the metric system to be excepted in every way.  I hope I haven't upset anybody with what I have said.  Cheers.   h