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canabus

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Re: Springer plans - Imperial v Metric!
« Reply #25 on: September 11, 2017, 10:13:14 am »
Is that 49mm,cm, metres, inches, feet or yards!!!
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LJ Crew

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Re: Springer plans - Imperial v Metric!
« Reply #26 on: September 11, 2017, 10:23:17 am »
Yes!
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Re: Springer plans - Imperial v Metric!
« Reply #27 on: September 11, 2017, 10:29:48 am »
I was a bank cashier on decimalisation day - oh what fun!

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Peter Fitness

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Re: Springer plans - Imperial v Metric!
« Reply #28 on: September 12, 2017, 01:32:38 am »
When I was at school, in the late 40s and early 50s, all weights and measurements in our science classes were metric, even though Australia did not introduce decimal currency until 14th February 1966, and metric weights and measures from 1971.


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