Re: units of measurement

["Pantelis Giamarellos" <pantg@otenet.gr>]

Fellow listers Hi,

In addition to Tom Black's remarks about the full metric designated tyres of
Michelin may I add that their product name was TRX and that apart from BMW
cars some Alfa Romeo cars used it too. More specificaly the Alfasud.

Regards
Pantelis Giamarellos


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Black <gfritz@cgocable.net>
To: AUDI S Cars Discussion List <audi-s-cars@lists.boldfish.com>
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Date: &Tgr;&rgr;&iacgr;&tgr;&eegr;, 19 &Ogr;&kgr;&tgr;&ohgr;&bgr;&rgr;&iacgr;&ogr;&ugr; 1999 5:49 &mgr;&mgr;
Subject: Re: units of measurement


>Here in Canada we converted to metric measurement in the 70s. There was
>some confusion at first mainly in the food retail business where
>housewives and other purchasers were confused by kilograms vs pounds.
>This was looked after by showing prices per kg and per lb - still used
>today!
>In my business (before retirement) as a consulting engineer the
>conversion went more or less without drama. Such things as water
>reservoirs are still referred to as having a capacity of  xxxmg and pipe
>flow rates as xxxmgd, however the designs and calculations are all
>metric. I expect that in ten years or so when the young engineers of the
>60s and 70s retire the references to imp. measures will die out.
>I believe that the US car industry went at least partially metric in
>fastener sizes, description of cubic capacities (Havn't seen mention of
>cubic inches for a long time),
>etc. This would be mandatory for export.
>In Canada gas consumption is now measured as litres per 100km. this one
>still confuses many people; why not km per litre. The answer according
>to those who spend our taxes on these matters is, the lower the litres
>the better the gas consumption. My logic is the higher the km the
>further I go per litre!
>The matter of measuring the diameters of auto wheels and tires in inches
>even in countries where Imperial measure never existed is a mystery. The
>only tire/wheel that I am aware of that was marketed all in metric was a
>Michelin combo that failed to gain market acceptance, even after certain
>BMW models were marketed with them.
>Our speedometers are marked in km only, no mph. Our temperature in
>degrees Celcius.
>In fact there are not too many references to Imperial measure any more
>in Canada.
>I am sure that one day soon the US will come on board.
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>Tom Black.
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