Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2006-05-02 at 09:42 +0100, Kevanf1 wrote:
Ok, now to ask the obvious. Why should a particular country change its long held, tried and tested method of measurement? Good grief the Industrial Revolution came about with a myriad of different sizes. Some of these were often so local that moving from one county to another meant that nuts made, eg. here in Staffordshire would not fit a bolt made in Warwickshire. Yet the modern world came about despite this mix and match arena :-)
Leave things as they are, it works.
Not if you try to put a nut made in, say, France or Spain, to a bolt made in Britain :-P
It's the same problem, but on a different scale.
Well, the French being what they are, ensure nothing fits their stuff. ;-)