Thanks for all the feedback, I will take pictures and be on the lookout for RHD
vehicles. On a similar note, I was in the UK a week or so back riding on a
local bus, I noticed the speedometer was km/h only! I've noticed that Taxi's
(the black London cab), also have km/h only speedometers.
Mike Payne
----- Original Message -----
From: John Frewen-Lord
To: Michael Payne ; U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Monday, 13 April 2009 05:57
Subject: Re: [USMA:44639] Bahamas
I believe the Bahamas is not (yet?) officially metric. I am a consultant
(rather sporadically) on The Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau and the Rand
Memorial Hospital in Freeport. Everything is imperial, primarily because so
much, including the building code, comes from, or is based on, what happens in
Florida. Most products are in imperial sizes (again, these come from the
USA). Road signs and car speedometers/odometers are still in miles. (As an
unusual aside, and a recent phenomenon, many cars in the Bahamas are private
import late model right hand drive Japanese cars - you drive on the left in the
Bahamas, but most cars are left hand drive. These RHD Japanese imports come
direct from Japan, where there are limits on how old a car can be, and of
course all have metric speedometers/odometers - but I was told by a Bahamian
government official that there is no law requiring them to be converted to
miles.)
I seem to remember reading something recently about the Bahamas converting to
metric, but I do not believe that it has officially been mandated yet.
Hope this helps.
John F-L
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Payne
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 3:36 AM
Subject: [USMA:44639] Bahamas
Anyone have any idea of what the law in the Bahamas states regarding the
preferred or mandated system of measurement there? I looked at
http://laws.bahamas.gov.bs/statutes/statute_CHAPTER_338.html and could not find
anything except some imported stuff had to be by the Bushel.
I'll be going there next week and wanted to know what the situation was
before I left.
Thanks
Mike Payne
