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Monthly Archives: July 2015
‘Think metric’. A customary way to success
We look at the metric changeover in the UK construction industry, and some of the posters that were part of it. Likes(0)Dislikes(0)
Posted in General, History, Technical
Tagged construction industry, imperial measures, metrication, think metric
63 Comments
Changing standards and definitions, including several best forgotten
After the controversy of recent weeks with bashed bridges, furlongs and novel signs, we turn to something deadly dull – the definitions of length, mass (or weight) and capacity (or volume) and their relationships. Likes(0)Dislikes(0)
Posted in General, History, Law, Science
Tagged Imperial gallon, imperial measures, International prototype kilogram, litre, metric, metrology
40 Comments
Novel signs around the UK
Following on from our article last week about those curious signs in Southend, Ronnie Cohen, one of our regular readers, now reports on a few others that have attracted his attention. Likes(0)Dislikes(0)
Posted in General, Myths, Road signs, Transport
Tagged authorised, confusion, conversion, errors, muddle, non-authorised, non-standard, official, restriction, sign, signage, signs, TSRGD, unauthorised, unofficial
32 Comments
Signs of the past in Southend-on-Sea
There has been an exchange of views on Facebook recently about alterations to signs in Southend-on-Sea carried out by “activists” over a decade ago. This has provided an opportunity for Metric Views to restate the legal position and to discuss … Continue reading
Another bridge bashed
John Frewen-Lord posted this comment on Metric Views but was unable to add the pictures that he took at the scene. We can, and accordingly we have made it the subject of a short article. Likes(0)Dislikes(0)