I think its more to do with an EU directive forcing safety information to be
filed in metric. When it gets to the "ordinary person" they appear to be
allowed to use feet and inches (or both ft,in and metres). I'm not sure why
this hasn't happened in other areas - then you won't get the likes of BWMA
being so "active"
I think a similar situation is crime. I believe that for filing it's meant
to all be in metric but when it comes to the "front end" the info gets
translated into imperial (eg. He was white, 6ft 3in and used a 5 inch
knifein the attack).
The strangest situation is with pool depths - hardly anyone knows their
height in metres (in the UK) but depth of pools used to show metric only.
I say "used to" because todays 'compensation culture' has (IMHO) seen double
labelling get used in many pools again.
From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:33295] Re: Height restriction signs
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:06:29 +0100
Thanks for this Terry.
It's crazy isn't it?
Dear Mr truck driver, you must have a height indication in your cab coz
it's taller than 3 metres.
Oh right. Let's see ... (scribble scribble) ... there 3.5 metres, OK?
No mate, feet and inches please!
Eh?
Phil Hall
(and they say the Brussels beaurocrats are barmy!)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Simpson"
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 5:49 PM
Subject: [USMA:33294] Re: Height restriction signs
>Philip S Hall
commercial vehicle drivers do have to know. They are supposed to have
a sign inside the cab with the height on it in both metric and imperial
but as far as I know there aren't any laws requiring it.
All vehicles with an overall travelling height of more than 3 metres must
have an in-cab indication of the vehicle height in imperial units. There
is
no requirement to have metric units.
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/sr/sr1998/19980225.htm
