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The battle for measurement supremacy
In December 2015, television weather forecasters expressed our record rainfall in millimetres while the national newspapers stubbornly stuck to inches. Apparently, the use two different measurement systems for the same phenomenon is alive and well in the UK. Ronnie Cohen … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer affairs, General, Road signs, Transport, Uncategorized, Views from abroad
Tagged area, areas, beer, car, competition, cycling, dimension, efficiency, fruit, fuel, gold, height, land, length, mess, milk, muddle, park, pressure, prices, railway, sales, signposts, signs, size, sizes, sports, system, systems, tourism, tourists, train, trains, tyre, vegetable, vehicle, walking, width
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The Worboys Committee Report revisited
Ronnie Cohen looks back at the 1963 Worboys Committee report and reviews how well the current version of the TSRGD addresses the main criticisms of the earlier traffic signs system and the Committee’s findings and recommendations. He suggests ways that … Continue reading
Posted in History, Road signs, Technical, Transport
Tagged archaic, colour, committee, consistency, consistent, criticism, criticisms, English, examples, findings, font, imperial, international, language, letter, measurement, non-metric, pictograms, recommendations, Regulations, report, shapes, sign, signage, signs, sizes, spacing, symbols, system, text, thickness, traffic, TSRGD, units, Welsh, Worboys, words
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The report that led the UK from one muddle to another
On 15 July 1862, the Select Committee on Weights and Measures of the UK Parliament published a report recommending the adoption of the metric system in the UK. That was 150 years ago. It was also less than forty years … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer affairs, Education, General, History, Technical
Tagged 1862, anniversary, committee, measures, metric, report, system, weights
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