Dear Jim:
John Frewen-Lord here, and, as you may already know, new chairman of the
UKMA.
In the last few weeks I have sent out letters to many organisations in the
UK, some similar to the MAPI (e.g. Confederation of British Industry), the
EEF (a manufacturer's association) as well as our National Measurement
Office (equivalent I guess to NIST in at least some respects), etc, and got
back replies from them. The replies are abysmal - I asked them all some very
pertinent questions as to their views on whether the UK's failure to
complete metrication was having an adverse effect of the UK's GDP,
especially its export performance (something that CBI is pushing very hard
right now). All, without exception, skirted and evaded the issues, trotted
out the standard party line, to the point that it was very obvious that
answering my questions directly would have exposed them to their failure to
push for completion of metrication. The letter from the NMO was in fact a
disgrace, to the point that I wonder why we even have an NMO.
This is why I am particularly interested in what comes from MAPI. Some
positive response there might just help me make progress here in the UK.
Best regards
John
-----Original Message-----
From: James
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 7:39 PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:53503] Re: SI metric
Dear Robert,
I"m glad that you had the opportunity to speak with Cliff Waldman, the
Council Director and Senior Economist of the Manufacturers Alliance for
Productivity and Innovation (MAPI), yesterday.
Hopefully he was receptive to your points in that conversation. It would
be very nice to find that this induces MAPI to push for metrication.
Well done!
Best regards,
Jim
On 2014-01-08 13:28, Robert H. Bushnell wrote:
2014 Jan 8
Dear Mr. Waldman,
It was good to talk with you yesterday. I hope you
can inform me (and the metric community) about why the US
has not finished removing use of inch-pound units from
every day life and from all manufacturing as well as the
use of inch-pound units by manufacturers, who are already
using millimeters, talking to the public.
US use of inches is a substantial problem and expense
in international commerce. It is said that the US is half
way to using SI metric. Is this true? MAPI may know
better than anyone.
With a one trillion dollar per year loss in the GDP, this
is serious. K-12 schools make a big part of this loss.
I hope you can help. How can I help you?
Robert H. Bushnell PhD PE
502 Ord Drive Boulder CO 80303-4732
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
303-554-0728
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