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Re: Metrification was: Why do (or did) the British drive on

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Subject: Re: Metrification was: Why do (or did) the British drive on
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:26:45 -0800
on 1/24/05 11:20 PM, James Harwood at james.harwood@sbcglobal.net wrote:

> Tyre sizes: 185/70 14
> 
> Strange, the guy gave me four pieces of heater hose.
> 
> Luckily that doesn't happen because everyone knows
> that the width is in mm and the diameter is in inches.
> 
> YLPHKMV


Yeah, and the "70" is a ratio or percentage. I have to admit that that is
one of the most cockeyed specifications ever adopted (I won't say "devised"
because obviously nobody specifically designed it this way).


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires




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