Seven o two nine.

Back to the railway bridge, I was asked to move a shed, I said four of us could lift it up and stand it on the back of my second vehicle my Daihatsu Hijet pickup.

Again my wife was with me and lifted a corner, we set off in the pickup and I’m getting comments about getting stuck under the railway bridges, I have printed labels across the top of the windscreens in both my van and pickup showing the MOT due date and vehicle heights, going with the flow I said the pickup is 2.1 metres, so with the shed on the back we needed around 3.1 metres of headroom, then we got to the bridge.

A Screwfix artic did get stuck under the next bridge along, apart from the traffic delays all the overnight orders were delayed as well.

well, loads of room then 13 feet is almost 4m 

Probably a bit late now..

(A metre measures 3 foot 3,

its longer than a yard you see

A litre of water's

a pint and three quarters

2 and 1/4 pounds of jam

weigh about a kilo-gramme)

School in the '70s in Essex,  lots of chanting of that along with the times tables..

~Useful though.

Odd that your bridges are imperial, round here it is all metric.

M,

well, loads of room then 13 feet is almost 4m 

Probably a bit late now..

(A metre measures 3 foot 3,

its longer than a yard you see

A litre of water's

a pint and three quarters

2 and 1/4 pounds of jam

weigh about a kilo-gramme)

School in the '70s in Essex,  lots of chanting of that along with the times tables..

~Useful though.

Odd that your bridges are imperial, round here it is all metric.

M,

Hence the lad above me at senior school became foreman of a woodyard and anyone who called in wanting to buy a piece of 3 x 2 (sorry 75mm x 50mm) was informed of the length of a "Metric 13" (4 metres being close to 13 feet).

Around here Electricians were using metres for absolutely yonks, no problem.

Joiners tend to be using inches only, mixed with feet and inches sometimes yards but still aware of metric sizes. Having said that though I`ve seen quite a few wrong size windows taken on site with such mix ups as 40 inches or 4ft 0in. Not even the old imperial to SI units mix up haha.

Plumbers seem intent of calculating their pipework in feet or feet and inches, not many metric plumber around here.

Some of us (perhaps too few these days) were quite at home with Green for Earth and Red for danger. Not too distant the memory of Green becoming "that new fangled" Green/Yellow combo and the Red/Black single phase colours remained for quite a while alongside.