Dear Terry, Stephen, and All, I remember in the building construction industry in Australia that there were several firms who did just what Stephen Humphreys suggests � they continued to use Imperial units even after their world had all gone metric.
These builders collected their plans and other documents from the designers, they had these approved by local building authorities, and then they sat down night-after-night to translate every single millimetre specification back to feet, inches, and fractions of inches. Their jobs were then assessed and measured by building inspectors � in millimetres � and hopefully approved for occupation. This was a long involved process for the builders concerned, but I am sure it was legal, and I am just as sure that it was grossly inefficient. Personally I knew three builders who used this tactic; one of them used it for a year before he decided to train his staff in using millimetres; a second persisted for two years before he gave away building and took up taxi driving; the third went broke, left the district and I haven't heard from him since about 1977. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia 61 3 5241 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metricationmatters.com on 2005-01-14 06.39, Terry Simpson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Of Stephen Humphreys >> The root legislation is that all safety, environmental and official >> measures must be metric. And based on EU legislature. > > What do you mean by 'EU legislature'? > > > >> Or are you trying to say that I *could* use imperial notation if >> I were a road contractor? > > Which law forbids it? >
