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Britain's Imperial Measurements saved - Thanks to US
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but are some of the imperial measurements different in the US versus britain, am thinking of weights. just go metric, easier for all concerned, was up north over the weekend and speeds are in miles, my car only has km, so a few ruched calculations had to be done when nearing speed cameras :)
~M

>Britain's traditional imperial measures had been set a deadline of 2009 to change to metric measures, but that has now been scrapped following a change of heart at the European Commission.
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>Both the Metric Martyrs campaign group and the Conservative Party and have claimed victory in the battle to keep Britain imperial.
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>Dual marking of goods in imperial and metric will "continue indefinitely".
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>He said that following lobbying by the Conservatives, Mr Verheugen agreed that it was good news for British and European industry to maintain imperial measurements as it would make selling to the US easier for firms.
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>http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20070509/tuk-metric-martyrs-claim-victory-dba1618.html
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>Yanks DO have their uses!
Go raibh maith agat

~M
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