A great story, Bob, with the edge slightly taken off it by an anglo-US
language pitfall ;-). Perhaps wishing to avoid the americanism of using
"alternate" where we in the UK would say "alternative", you missed the real
UK use of the word "alternate" - meaning "every other one".
Easier to relate in spanish!
Paul
> As the total number of thread sizes, material, head style, lengths and
> whatever became too large for stores to handle, a meeting was held at
> a VERY high level to take the decision to only use alternative BA thread
> sizes in the future.
> All stock of the "other" sizes, apart from very small stocks for
> maintenance of existing equipment, were disposed of (probably by
> dumping at sea, I wouldn't be surprised...).
> All went well, until the next time the GPO swung into action to do
> their part in maintaining Britain's defences. Only then, of course, did
> they discover that the Ministry had standardised on all the "even" BA
> sizes, and the GPO on all the "odd" ones ...
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