Archive for December, 2006

Consumer watchdog misses metric opportunity

Friday, December 15th, 2006

BBC Radio 4 has missed a golden opportunity to to do some real consumer education and help shoppers to obtain value for money by understanding and using “unit pricing” - i.e. prices per kg, litre, metre etc [article contributed by Robin Paice, Chair of UKMA].

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Wouldn’t life be simpler

Friday, December 15th, 2006

If we could use one unit for distance, height, width, length etc on our roads?

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Welcome to ‘Metric Views’

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Welcome to ‘Metric Views’, a UK Metric Association website. This website aims to provide information and comment about the UK’s transition to the global metric system of measurement, and show why the UK should complete the changeover as quickly as possible.