Hi Han,
I too have been to the York Museum and I agree with your sentiments. May I respectfully suggest that you write to the director of the museum, drawing this to his attention and emphasizing your Dutch background and that you are more at home reading English rather than German. Martin _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Han Maenen Sent: 03 January 2010 12:15 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:46358] Best Wishes and a visit to the Rail Museum at York I wish all member so USMA and this forum the best for 2010 and may the 10 speak for real metric progress.. Last year I was in the Railway Museum at York and found two things that I have included here. I can fully understand what is on the picture 059.jpg. The museum explains that the measurements of their exhibits are given in Imperial without metric equivalents; I understand the reason why and would not object to this. I took many pictures of - Imperially designed - British steam locomotives as well. The first picture is of the beautiful Mallard engine, which was used on long haul services. Pictures 1 and 2. However, there was a temporary exhibition about the Japanese bullet train and if a person from outer space sees the technical information, he will assume that the real and genuine International System of Units is not metric but Imperial/USC, and that what is given in brackets following the Imperial measurements is something used in some stagnant backwaters. Even the long ton is used in this information. The third picture shows the information: non metric first, not just in English, but also in Japanese. And I deeply suspect that this is also the case in French and German translations, which where not present there. This simply should have been in metric with Imperial equivalents in English, and metric-only in Japanese as it was and is a metric project. Han
