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| United States Metric
Association Formed in 1916 to turn the United States to the metric system, USMA seeks change by building networks with pro-metric elements within the US government and indoctrinating the US population into believing that they alone in the world use non-metric units. |
| The European Engineering
Industry More hidden persuaders of compulsory metric conversion. European engineering representatives, including those of Britain, complain that the USA uses inch-pound tools and specifications. US industry spans the globe, building constructions such as oil platforms and other industrial installations using inch-based spanners and screw threads. When the Europeans turn up, nothing fits. Rather than showing initative and getting there first, the European engineers want to ban the inch. |
Chris Howell &
ITSA
Chris Howell is the weights and measures spokesman for the Institute of Trading Standards Administration. It was he who famously said imperial traders could martyr themselves if they wanted to, thereby prompting newspapers to adopt the _expression_ "metric martyrs". Mr Howell changed his tune the following week; when asked whether he had sympathy with the shops that had not switched, he said, "Well, indeed I do. One of the whole problems here is that government, and I'm not talking about the present government but governments over about 30 years, simply have not prepared the way for this sort of change, and I'm not surprised that customers are still unable to come to terms with the metric system."
Chris Howell is the weights and measures spokesman for the Institute of Trading Standards Administration. It was he who famously said imperial traders could martyr themselves if they wanted to, thereby prompting newspapers to adopt the _expression_ "metric martyrs". Mr Howell changed his tune the following week; when asked whether he had sympathy with the shops that had not switched, he said, "Well, indeed I do. One of the whole problems here is that government, and I'm not talking about the present government but governments over about 30 years, simply have not prepared the way for this sort of change, and I'm not surprised that customers are still unable to come to terms with the metric system."
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