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	Metrication - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Metrication or metrification is the process of converting from the various other systems of units used throughout the world to the SI metric system.
		The "metric martyrs" were shop owners in the UK who were fined for refusing to use metric units and for overcharging in response to metric customer requests.
		This is a result of the introduction of PET bottling technology coinciding with a particularly strong metrication push in the mid to late 1970s; consumers found that they could buy a two-liter plastic bottle of their favorite soft drink more cheaply than they could four one-pint glass bottles, and the convention stuck.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metrication (3637 words)

	Metrication in the UK - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		UK government policy is to eliminate by December 31, 2009 almost all non-metric units when used for goods and services sold by quantity.
		UK metrication and the EU It was a condition of the UK's entry into the European Economic Community (now called the European Union) that the UK, along with Ireland, would convert all trade and production to the metric system by the 1st of January 1978.
		The estimated costs of metrication in the UK range from near zero to a 1970 estimate of £5bn (about £50bn in 2002 pounds [7]) by opponents of the change.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metrication_in_the_UK (2217 words)

	UK metric association - legislation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		UK legislation: laws debated and passed by parliament in the normal way.
		Currently, the UK is the only country in the world whose road sign regulations do not include metric units as options for distances, despite widespread use of metres in the Highway Code, and roads having been designed and built in metric for decades.
		It is the view of the UKMA that these regulations fall foul of the EU directive on metrication (which was made part of UK law by The Units of Measurement Regulations 1995).
	www.ukma.org.uk /legislation.htm (904 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Head-to-Head: Metrication
		Metric campaigners say it is high time Britain fell into line with the vast majority of countries all over the world who use the system.
		Unfortunately the UK has a muddle of two systems: litres for petrol and fizzy drinks, pints for beer and milk, metres and kilometres for athletics, miles per gallon for cars, the metric system for school, and yet, all too often, still pounds and ounces in the market.
		The different characteristics of the metric and traditional systems have enabled the two to exist side by side for over a hundred years, their uses allocated by people opting for the system that best suits their needs.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/3611864.stm (768 words)

	UK metric association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Metric units are used in most countries of the world because they are so practical.
		Metric units are not just for engineers and scientists but for architects, cooks, DIYers, gardeners, nurses and mountaineers.
		The vast majority of manufacturing is metric, letters and parcels are weighed in grams, health records are metric, children learn metric at school, film sizes are metric and our maps are created using metric.
	www.metric.org.uk (792 words)

	A Dictionary of Measures, Units and Conversions
		There is a short historical note on measures generally; descriptions of the Metric system, the UK (Imperial) system with a statement on the implementation of 'metrication' in the UK, and the US system.
		Metrication in the UK There have been three major Weights and Measures Acts in recent times (1963, 1976 and 1985) all gradually abolishing various units, as well re-defining the standards.
		As with the UK system these measures were originally defined by physical standard measures - the yard, the pound, the gallon and the bushel.They are now all defined by reference to the SI measures of the metre, the kilogram and the litre.
	www.bioinfo.rpi.edu /~zukerm/dictunit.html (4915 words)

	Directory - Science: Reference: Units of Measurement
		Metric 4 US · iweb · cached · A site promoting the metric system which argues why metric is better and English is worse.
		UK Metric Association · cached · Pressure group campaigning for the completion of metrication in the UK.
		Metric Conversion Tables to Imperial Measurements · iweb · cached · Standard-to-metric conversion factor tables with definitions, derived units and prefixes.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=82866 (405 words)

	The Guild of Food Writers Cook it! Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Metrication in the UK In 1971, Great Britain changed over to the decimal system of coinage.
		BUT –more than 30 years on, the UK is still locked into this dual system for recipes despite the fact that all measuring utensils, cookers, etc., are printed in metric and at least one new generation has grown up being taught in metric.
		This does not mean we necessarily advocate cooking in metric as a superior system to Imperial, simply that it was cast in legislative stone decades back and in the absence of any clear Government help we have had to draw up our own guidelines and help our readers as much as possible.
	www.gfw.co.uk /campaigns/metrication.html (774 words)

	Science Reference Units of Measurement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Metric 4 US - A site promoting the metric system which argues why metric is better and English is worse.
		Metric Conversion Tables to Imperial Measurements - Standard-to-metric conversion factor tables with definitions, derived units and prefixes.
		UK Metric Association - Pressure group campaigning for the completion of metrication in the UK.
	www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Science/Reference/Units_of_Measurement (403 words)

	UK metric association - news archive 1999
		DTI metrication Web pages now includes more useful reference material, in the form of Parliamentary reports on weights and measures, covering not only developments in UK metrication over the last 35 years, but also historical documents going back over 100 years.
		Metric units are now used by the public sector for most purposes.
		A report detailing the historical development of metrication in the UK, the forthcoming changes and how the DTI is proposing to assist traders and consumers is available in pdf format for download.
	www.metric.org.uk /news/news1999.htm (659 words)

	Metric usage and metrication in other countries
		Metric description of athletics, soccer, golf, and cricket on television and radio, and in newspapers, served a useful educational purpose.
		At the time of resumption of the metric campaign in 1956, the percentages of adoption of the metric system were: in electricity, gas, and water supply 95%; in chemical industry 90%; in metal working 80%; machine industry 70%; textile industry 60%; and in other industries 60%.
		In accordance with this announcement, the full adoption of metric system in teaching began in the first and second year classes from the academic session of 1962-63 and in 1963-64 in the third and fourth year classes, followed by the introduction in the fifth and final year classes in 1964-65.
	lamar.colostate.edu /~hillger/internat.htm (7611 words)

	Metrication
		Since 1965 the United Kingdom has been adopting metric weights and measures in response to the adoption of metric units as the international system of measurement.
		Metric units of measurement are now used for most transactions regulated by the Weights and Measures Act 1985.
		In addition, it is Government policy to encourage the adoption of the metric system for other purposes, including public administration.
	www.dti.gov.uk /ccp/topics1/metric.htm (247 words)

	BRITISHWEIGHTS AND MEASURES ASSOCIATION
		Their focus of attention has been to argue that the change to metric should take place with the minimum of inconvenience to consumers.
		Any pretence that commerce and industry either demanded to be compelled to go metric (which they have been free to do voluntarily ever since 1897), or demanded that their customers should be compelled to go metric, is utterly ludicrous.
		The CGs were not asked whether they preferred imperial or metric measures, or whether they wanted imperial measures prohibited in favour of a metric monopoly - and chose to remain silent on the whole issue.
	www.bwmaonline.com /Anti-consumer.htm (1146 words)

	TYSK - Departments: Metrication
		Metrication and Architecture - The problem with the metric measurement as applied to architecture is that it violates three important parts of architectural composition/design: Proportionality; Ergonomics; Cognitive Reducibility.
		For decades now we've been told that the metric system is the measurement system of the future and that only xenophobics are against its full implementation.
		Because one group of scientists working for a sub-contractor made their calculations in metric notation and another group used those calculations to program the trajectory and thought the numbers were Imperial...
	www.tysknews.com /Depts/Metrication/metrication.htm (1149 words)

	Anti-consumer groups
		For instance, a widely circulated DTI paper, designed for public consumption, states: "The Government announcement in 1965 that the UK would go metric in stages was based primarily on the commercial needs of manufacturing industry.
		His opening letter was to the Head of Transportation at the East Lothian Council HQ in Haddington, requesting confirmation that, in view of the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions of 1994, certain pedestrian signs in North Berwick which indicate distances only in kilometres are unlawful.
		The reply failed to answer the question, merely making the excuse that "as a large number of visitors to East Lothian are from other countries it was considered beneficial for metric distances to be included where a destination was a particularly long way from the town centre".
	members.aol.com /footrule/ys13.htm (2932 words)

	unitofmeasure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The provisional government has assigned a group of their top scientists, including you, the task of choosing the official units of measurement for your country.
		In the United States, the Metric System will some day be the rule of the land.
		After this activity, you should be able to decide for yourself if you think the metric system is the way to go.
	phillips.chccs.k12.nc.us /~rfrescoln/unitofmeasure.htm (356 words)

	Metric Martyrs - Welcome
		Metric Martyrs outside the Royal Courts of Justice.
		As we have always said, we are not anti metric, simply pro freedom of choice.
		We find it abhorrent that there are still four traders in the country that have criminal convictions for selling by the pound due to the duplicitous, deceitful way the Metrication Regulations were implemented.
	www.metricmartyrs.co.uk (201 words)

	BWMA/Links to other Sites
		A compendium of weights and measures, traditional and metric, from all parts of the world, but with emphasis on British, Commonwealth, and American units.
		Dedicated to the repatriation of the UK's Economic Fishing Zone from the EC Common Fisheries Policy.
		The site suggests improvements to the metric system aimed at making more of the basic conversion factors decimal and bringing metric units into line with Planck units, the preferred system in some branches of modern physics.
	www.bwmaonline.com /Links.htm (648 words)

	Bill's diary - Metrication in the UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bill's diary - Metrication in the UK Part of Bill's incredibly stupid web diary.
		Metrication in the UK So the UK is undergoing a metrication process, and anyone under the age of 30 will only know metric units?
		Sad to inform the world, but I'm firmly in the old-fashioned measures camp, even though I went through a metric education.
	www.bacchae.co.uk /diary/metric.html (232 words)

	UK Legal websites UK
		Officialrecords - UK certificate and Government records website for searches and official copies of certificates.
		UK confidentiality, terms of use, Business, property and employment templates for instant download.
		The Accidental Creditor - This site campaigns for changes in the UK legal system so that claimants and creditors can receive fair treatment by the courts and collect the money owed to them.
	www.splut.co.uk /004/001-5.htm (488 words)

	Internet Resources Newsletter: Issue 70
		The number of digital messages sent by mobile-phones in the UK is expected to top 500 million this summer.
		The Training Well provides a well of training courses throughout the UK and allows course seekers to find an educational course by area, topic, or keyword and, through our database, hold a dialogue with the targeted course provider.
		The sites will normally be UK based, may be small or large, and be of interest or potential interest to academics.
	www.hw.ac.uk /libWWW/irn/irn70/irn70.html (4912 words)

	Stirling University Library: Recommended reference web sites - A-Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Includes a discussion of the UK Imperial system, and metrication in the UK and USA.
		Its purpose is to deal with financial support and give advice to eligible Scottish students in higher education throughout the United Kingdom, together with certain related roles in connection with student loans, hardship funds and educational endowments.
		Search any UK postcode or placename to find a map of the area, zoom in and out just by clicking on the map.
	www.library.stir.ac.uk /refdesk/genwebaz.html (3061 words)

	Units of Measurement Reference Science
		- A site promoting the metric system which argues why metric is better and English is worse.
		- Dictionary of metric units explaining the principles and history of the system.
		- Pressure group campaigning for the completion of metrication in the UK.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Science/Reference/Units_of_Measurement (285 words)

	Reference - Science - WoList.com - Everything you want to know about Reference is on this site! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Frame Relay Forum is an association of corporate members comprised of vendors, carriers, users and consultants committed to the implementation of Frame Relay in accordance with national and international standards.
		Pressure group campaigning for the completion of metrication in the UK.
		Includes metric and English units and also a large range of other possible conversions.
	www.wolist.com /wo/science/reference-3388/__p/5 (285 words)

	UK Politics & Government websites UK
		UK Metrication - History of UK metrication; legislation, consumer groups, Trading Standards.
		UKIP Vale of York - Website for the Vale of York UK Independence Party Constituency Association.
		Visa under HSMP UK - Advice on HSMP from UK authorized immigration advisers and free points calculator.
	www.splut.co.uk /004-13.htm (382 words)

	Published articles about the metric system, metrication, and related standards
		A list of metric cartoons is also available on this Website.
		There is only one metric system, based on seven units and, yes, it is entirely consistent.
		Discover, v.21(5), 2000-May, p.12, Four letters: ‘America's aversion to the metric system is simply a fear of the unknown and resistance to change.
	lamar.colostate.edu /~hillger/articles.htm (13569 words)

	IPL Ready Reference Collection: Calculation & Conversion Tools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This site provides conversions "from/to metric and imperial and US measurement systems." It calculates the results and gives the factors for length, area, volume/capacity, mass (weight), and temperature conversions.
		The time zone rules on which the converter is based are updated whenever local laws or ordinances change to provide you with the most accurate time converter utility on the Net!" Site also provides the ability to "create a customized reference card that you can print and carry with you...
		A series of helpful tools for use by international travelers, including a world public holidays calendar, a currency converter, maps, a metric converter, weather sites, electricity requirements (by continent and country), dialing codes, a international clothing size chart, and a time zone clock.
	www.ipl.org.ar /ref/RR/static/ref1300.html (1573 words)

	BUBL LINK: Physics education
		The units and their explanations can be accessed via category, for example, length, area, volume, mass, density, power, pressure, speed, energy, and force, or via an alphabetical list.
		There is also a discussion of the UK Imperial system, and metrication in the UK and USA.
		Reference document listing symbols, values, and units relating to physical constants, such as speed of light in vacuum, planck mass, and nuclear magneton.
	bubl.ac.uk /link/p/physicseducation.htm (1127 words)

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