[USMA:33559] Re: metric system in u k

[Daniel]

But, according to the BWMA it was joining the EU that made metric usage compulsory.  Making it legal for use but having it become used are too different things.  It took the legislation in the 1960s (before the UK entered the EU) to make it compulsory.  The BWMA feels that if you remove the compulsion metric will fade away and everything will become imperial again.  Britain will regain its lost empire, the British fleet will rule the seas, the pound will replace the euro as the world's second major currency (the pound isn't even #3, the Yen is),  the Queen will rule the world, and everyone will live happily ever after.   Dan       ----- Original Message ----- From: john mercer To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Thursday, 2005-07-14 22:39 Subject: [USMA:33558] metric system in u k Hello Dan and everybody. I did some searching to find out when the metric system was made legal in the UK for all perposes. It was in 1896. Go to UK metric assoc and look at metric time line. It was made legal but not compulsory. So the metric system has been legal in the UK for all purposes long before the     EU ever existed.        No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.15/49 - Release Date: 2005-07-14