Imperial weights and measures

[Alan Hill]

I have started a petition to make Imperial weights and measures legal once more.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petit..._xY_XftY0PItwf

[j.sabourn]

The ones I want are fathoms and feet. ( on charts water depth)
Cables ( chain) 15 fathoms
Cable ( dist. ) 600 feet or Near as damn 1/10 of a nautical mile.
TPI Tons per inch immersion.
Short ton.
Long ton
Cubic feet.
All drafts and plimsolls in feet and inches.
Just a few for starters.
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[vic mcclymont]

If you think on it UK is all mixed up.
We buy beer in pints, petrol in litres, we buy milk in litres.
We buy food in metric, grams and mili litres
We buy TV in inches.
Roads measured in miles, speed in mph, we measure other things in mm or metres.
Vic

[Ivan Cloherty]

Roads measured in miles, speed in mph,
Vic

Not on the BBC, they are obsessed with saying xx is yy kilometes from aa and qouting speeds in kph

[Tony Taylor]

If you think on it UK is all mixed up.
We buy beer in pints, petrol in litres, we buy milk in litres.
We buy food in metric, grams and mili litres
We buy TV in inches.
Roads measured in miles, speed in mph, we measure other things in mm or metres.
Vic

Piping sizes still quoted in inches, but when you check bore and o/d sizes they are in mm

[john walker]

I have started a petition to make Imperial weights and measures legal once more.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petit..._xY_XftY0PItwf

Please no, it has taken me close to 45 years to get used to the metric .

[Brenda Shackleton]

Some years ago our local Council re-vamped their building - yet again. Outside, they placed a fingerpost indicating how many kms /metres to various places. I went in and said that distances in the UK are Imperial and that their fingerpost is probably illegal. They took it down and replaced it . Yeah !
regards
Brenda

[Tony Taylor]

Not on the BBC, they are obsessed with saying xx is yy kilometes from aa and qouting speeds in kph

They still use ridiculous comparisons like, as long as 200 buses or, heavy as 750 elephants etc

[Duke Drennan]

My engineering dept issues drawings in feet, inches and points of an inch. How mixed up is that.

[j.sabourn]

#8... Or it weighs a ton, What sort of ton ? Long, short, American, Metric ? Going for petrol I still think in gallons and yet our speedometers and odometers are in metric now and don’t show statute miles. All signs are in kilometres per hour. What do seamen do today when making out their daily reports as to speed of ship, do they still give it in knots ? Or convert to Kpm .distances off a Mercator chart was always taken off the latitude scale as 1 minute of latitude equals 1 nautical mile . Or are paper charts now or are going to be dumped.? I wonder if our ancient ancestors had the same resistance to change when they did away with their measurements such as cubits .

JS