I have a Gunters Chain in my garage as well as my newly acquired Gunters Chain tape measure, the likelihood of me using either is zero, zilch, it just ain’t going to happen.
But as a unit of measurement it’s not dead and buried.
All British road signs are in imperial measurements miles and yards, except the motorway distance markers which are metric and are every 100 metres, all the railway signs are also imperial in miles and chains as far as I know.
As well as some odd measuring tapes, rules and chains I also have three Hoppus Ready Reckoner books, the oldest being a couple of hundred years old and leather bound, I have actually used both Hoppus tape measures and ready reckoners, when I worked in a sawmill, which seems like a lifetime ago.
What I tend to find is that people advocating the “reintroduction of imperial measurements” in the UK is that they rarely actually measure anything and never have, so basically don’t have any real idea of what they are talking about.
Cable conductor identity colours have nothing to do with metrification,
I have a Gunters Chain in my garage as well as my newly acquired Gunters Chain tape measure, the likelihood of me using either is zero, zilch, it just ain’t going to happen.
But as a unit of measurement it’s not dead and buried.
All British road signs are in imperial measurements miles and yards, except the motorway distance markers which are metric and are every 100 metres, all the railway signs are also imperial in miles and chains as far as I know.
As well as some odd measuring tapes, rules and chains I also have three Hoppus Ready Reckoner books, the oldest being a couple of hundred years old and leather bound, I have actually used both Hoppus tape measures and ready reckoners, when I worked in a sawmill, which seems like a lifetime ago.
What I tend to find is that people advocating the “reintroduction of imperial measurements” in the UK is that they rarely actually measure anything and never have, so basically don’t have any real idea of what they are talking about.
Cable conductor identity colours have nothing to do with metrification,
