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Re: 125 years ago today, on May 10th...

To: David Massey <105671.471@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: 125 years ago today, on May 10th...
From: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:02:19 -0600
Cc: "INTERNET:odd.hedberg@bigfoot.com" <odd.hedberg@bigfoot.com>, 1-Triumph List <triumphs@autox.team.net>, 1-TR8-list <tr8@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
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David Massey wrote:
> 
> Message text written by INTERNET:odd.hedberg@bigfoot.com
> >NO ARCHIVE !
> 
> Friends,
> JFYI... Today, May 10th, it's 125 years since USA signed the Inter-
> national Metre Convention in Paris. Together with 19 other national
> representatives... Makes one wonder what y'all been doing for the
> last century or so... ;-)
> Have a bright and sunny day!
> Regards
> /Odd
> 
> --
> Odd Hedberg
> <
> 
> Odd, are you rubbing our noses in it or just stiring the pot.  As for me I
> am sick and tired of trying to figure out which is bigger: 5/64 or 1/8.

Well, let's try to keep this in perspective, since it's a car list:

On May 8, 1879, George Selden of Rochester, N.Y., filed for the first
patent
 for an automobile. It was granted in 1895.

Cheers, all.

-- 

Michael D. Porter
Roswell, NM
[mailto: mporter@zianet.com]

`70 GT6+ (being refurbished, slowly)
`71 GT6 Mk. III (organ donor)
`72 GT6 Mk. III (daily driver)
`64 TR4 (awaiting intensive care)

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