On Thursday 13 Jan 2005 18:57, Stephen Humphreys wrote: > The root legislation is that all safety, environmental and official > measures must be metric. And based on EU legislature.
Names and dates of relevant *UK* legislation, please - and penalties for non-compliance. Why would contractors using metric units since the 60s not want to continue doing so, especially as all engineers have been educated in metric since then? (My cousin's husband was one of the architects who helped design those town plans back in the 60s, so I do know what I'm talking about.) > The UK has "derogation" on certain things - signposts being one of them. > > Or are you trying to say that I *could* use imperial notation if I were > a road contractor? I believe you know that I could not - possibly with > the intention of entrapment. No comment ;-) -- Chris KEENAN UK Metric Assoc.: metric.org.uk
