Martin,
They don't have 'm', 'km', mile ('m' again), or yds on them.They're not for
public consumption.Although I'm not going to stop you 'using' them ;-)
Unfortunately I have to travel the motorways every (work) day - culminating
with one of Britain's most hated roads (not the M25)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [USMA:46649] RE: And, by the way......
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:27:23 +0000
Steve has obviously not traveled on any
motorways for some years, otherwise he would have noticed the driver location
signs (which are in kilometres). Wikipedia has a description – please visit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_location_signs.
From:
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen
Humphreys
Sent: 14 February 2010 22:33
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:46649] RE: And, by
the way......
It's miles and yards, not miles and feet.
(apart from - as you said - feet for width and height).
I've yet to see my first sighting
of a 'km' sign in my travels up and down the UK (and we've travelled
extensively). Apart from anything UK cars use what's called a
'milometer' - a British morphing of the term odometer and miles. I don't
see how UK cars could make use of distances in a system drivers cannot use on
their instrumentation (unless they import a car from abroad - 'grey imports' -
although I have seen many subarus bought this way which have had their
instruments changed to 'mph only' presumably for the more stricter MoT
stations). I've also not seen the use of km in newspapers - except for
one paper called 'Metro' which actually has a policy of using metric(!) but
even with that they'll bracket imperial (apart from, bizarrely, snow depth
which they quote in inches but then bracket 'cm' - maybe they think inches are
metric!). In practice the normal daily's will even 'translate' a distance
which would ordinarily definitely be in km to miles (eg a report from France).
Like
domestic BBC new items.
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [USMA:46644] And, by the way......
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:42:06 +0000
.....although, again, admittedly rare, newspapers and books
in the UK
have been known to use kilometres as well as miles.
Yes, all signposts on UK public roads are legally
required to read in miles and feet (although this is not always the case) but
some publcations, particularly newspapers, will happily mix kilometres with
miles
----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen
Davis
To: U.S. Metric
Association
Sent: Sunday, February
14, 2010 8:32 PM
Subject: [USMA:46643] Re: Burma
"I can assure you that almost all publications, and
other media outlets, would use miles over here. Based on the
non-metrication of our roads I'd guess."
Except for private roads of course, which can use metric
signs if they wish. And though it is admittedly pretty rare, you can find
mixtures of metric and imperial on British road signs....bridge heights, for
example, can often be in metres other than, or as well as, feet.
A statement on the sorry mess that measurement
is in this country, unfortunately.
----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen
Humphreys
To: U.S. Metric
Association
Sent: Saturday, February
13, 2010 7:10 PM
Subject: [USMA:46629] Re: Burma
Not sure. Some publishers use kiolmetres for
international books. Perhaps it's something like that. Like the way
'BBC World' would say 'The accident happened 3 kilometres from the junction'
with the exact same feature being broadcast as 'The accident happened 2 miles
from the junction' in domestic BBC stations. You mention it as a excerpt
- was the spelling 'metER' as you mention or 'metRE'?
I can assure you that almost all
publications, and other media outlets, would use miles over here. Based
on the non-metrication of our roads I'd guess.
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:34:26
+0000
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [USMA:46627] Re: Burma
But
then how does that explain why they gave the distance only in kilometers and
not both kilometers and miles?
-- Ezra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Humphreys" <[email protected]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 5:40:34 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [USMA:46622] Re: Burma
Ezra:"I noted in one of their (free) excerpts from another part of the
book that they referred to the length of a particular railway journey in
kilometres, which I presume was done for the benefit of their (UK)
readers."
Surely you mean 'miles' (UK tracks being in miles and UK citizens
usage). km would be there for Australia for example.
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