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Back during that supposed transitioning period all the equipment I
worked on went over to metric, because, of course, they sold world
wide, just like cars.<br>
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John<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/24/2020 1:12 PM, Robert Begani
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I heard back in the day, a Michigan congressman saw a dual
speed limit sign in English mph and Metric kph. He thought
“why should I and my constituents have to learn a European
Language”. Unfortunately, the Michigan car makers encourage
him to propose an amendment to the US law which provided for
a 10 year transition to the metric system of weights and
measures. This amendment put a temporary hold on the
progress and has never been removed so there was no
progression require conversion, to teach school children to
learn and so on. However, there are many roads in the USA
which still have dual signs which by law cannot be removed
as they are under phase one of the law. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Every
country in the world using the English system of weights and
measures signed the international treaty and began to covert
to the metric systems, except the USA. In all those
countries children began to learn the system in the 60’s and
the use of dual signs and gauges were acceptable until
everyone in these countries became knowledgeable in the
metric system. Too bad we had to say “wait a minute “ which
has lasted our lifetimes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Note,
all automobiles, and many manufactured products are fully
metric today except the humans which use them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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Begani</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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