Martin I would agree with most things that you say, but have recently been in two vehicles with "metric only" speedos/odometers One was an Avery 48 tonne weighbridge unit, the other was a car transporter capable of carrying a couple of cars. Neither had supplementary imperial markings and are currently legal for use on UK roads.
--- On Mon, 13/4/09, Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]> wrote: From: Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:44651] Re: Bahamas To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 13 April, 2009, 2:26 PM Mike, If you looked carefully you would probably have seen mph as a supplementary measure. The UK vehicles that I have seen that have km/h only are the London Underground, various metro systems ( Newcastle , Croydon) and some military vehicles. Most busses and heavy lorries have km/h as the primary unit of measure and mph as a secondary unit. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Payne Sent: 13 April 2009 14:49 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:44649] Re: Bahamas 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
