Stephen Humphreys wrote: "Should I remind you that in no way has Neil Herron being tied with this sign. In fact - I've never seen him get involved with the roadsign debate"
Well, he had a story about it in the Sunderland Echo at the time complaining about this particular sign and about 2 or 3 weeks later, the sign was replaced by city of Sunderland council for one with legal yard measurements. The two events were probably just total coincidence......or maybe not! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:44 PM Subject: [USMA:35145] Re: The pitfalls of double conversion. > Should I remind you that in no way has Neil Herron being tied with this > sign. > In fact - I've never seen him get involved with the roadsign debate > > > >From: "Philip S Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > >Subject: [USMA:35144] Re: The pitfalls of double conversion. > >Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:16:18 -0000 > > > >>Apologies for not replying earlier, Daniel. Neil Herron may well be a > >>member of ARM but if he is, he's certainly keeping it a secret as I'm > >>certainly not aware if he is or not. > >> > >>He seems more concerned with scoring petty points off Sunderland council > >>nowadays. > > > >Neil Herron is a classic example of what I was talking about. He runs the > >metric martyrs campaign which ostensibly is about protecting the freedom of > >marketeers from the law requiring them to sell in metric. He (like they all > >do) says he's not anti-metric. > > > >So what have distance signs got to do with it? What does it matter if a > >sign says its 500 m to the village of Bourdon? Where are those "I'm not > >anti-metric" principles? > > > >Phil Hall > > >
