Maybe they are trying to undo the damage to their reputation when BMW first
opened and complained that the people they hired were unable to read metric
drawings. They may also be trying to project an image of the "New South", a
land of modern, forward thinking people instead of the "Old South" image of
backwards leaning hicks.
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, 2005-07-11 14:04
Subject: [USMA:33506] metric forestry
Folks,
I had reason, alas, to sit for some time in the customer waiting room at a
car
dealer's shop while the brakes on my car were being worked on. While I was
there, I perused the 2004 November issue of a magazine called _SC
Forestry_
and found the two largest articles in there were fairly fully metricated.
One used cubic meters to describe the volume of wood traded and one used
kilograms and metric tons to describe the masses of wood products being
discussed. Both had to do with world markets, so perhaps that was the
inspiration, though both articles discussed these matters from a South
Carolina perspective on domestic and world trade issues. Neither one gave
non-metric equivalents except that in one spot (a note on a graph axis)
the
second article gave the equivalent of 2204 lb for the metric ton.
Unfortunately it also symbolized the kilogram with KG and it used acres to
indicate land areas. But still....! Here in South Carolina....!
It is not uncommon anymore to see technical publications (manufacturing,
engineering, computers, etc.) that use metric units, but this was a
forestry
magazine! And it was privately published by the South Carolina Forrestry
Association (of foresters, timber cutters, timber processors, et al.) and
not
by one of the state's agencies!
Jim
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