As an aside, yesterday I learnt from Wildcat_lgf, our latest Antipodean club member that the NZ registration plate FCCUK is available.

Apart from the sheep seat covers , it looks in very good shape indeed. I think it's worth the asking price. That nice looking engine has only done 45,000 km - I didn't know that NZ uses the metric system...

Does that plate "BRIOSO" have a meaning in English? It's not a common word in Portuguese, but it can mean "proud, generous, mettlesome".

That's an interesting comment; why wouldn't NZ use the metric system? The speedo is in km/h only by chance. Some coupes have mph speedos. It just depends where they were purchased from. There are only 6-7 of these in nz.

So has the UK. From memory, only road distances and beer still use the imperial measurements by default.

But remember, the average UK citizen finds it hard to cope when things are made easier:

• 12 inches to the foot, 3 feet to the yard, 1,760 yards to the mile
• 100 links to the chain, 10 chains to the furlong, 8 furlongs to the mile
• 1 chain by one furlong = 1 acre; 640 acres = one square mile
• 1 rod = 1 perch = 1 pole; 4 poles to the chain, 40 poles to the furlong
• 1 span = 9 inches; 2 spans = 1 cubit; 2 cubits = 1 yard; 3 cubits = 1 ell; 32 ells = 1 bolt

Weights:

• 16 ounces to the pound; 14 pounds to the stone; 8 stone to the hundred weight; 20 hundredweight to the ton

And let us not forget money:

• 2 farthings to the halfpenny
• 2 halfpennies to the penny
• 3 pennies to the threepenny bit
• 4 pennies to the groat
• 2 threepenny bits to the tanner
• 2 tanners to the bob
• 2 bob and a tanner to the half crown (aka half a dollar)
• 2 half crowns to the crown
• 2 crowns to the ten bob note
• 2 ten bob notes to the quid
• and add a bob for a guinea

But the British fought like lions against metrication because it was too complicated... funny thing, all those currencies were legal tender until 1971 (1960, for the farthing) and the groat and the crown still are (for ceremonial money; actual value may differ from face value); the guinea is still used to buy horses and for racing.

But the British fought like lions against metrication because it was too complicated... funny thing, all those currencies were legal tender until 1971 (1960, for the farthing) and the groat and the crown still are (for ceremonial money; actual value may differ from face value); the guinea is still used to buy horses and for racing.

My lad didn't have to learn the 11 and 12x tables, as there "is no need to". Unfortunately they seem to have stopped teaching the 1-10x tables now

Decimilisation was a total rip off. As a lad at the time even I sussed the blatant rip off. Bazooka Joes were 1d each, so I could buy 12 for a shilling. Post decimalisation they were 1/2p so I could get 10 for 5p, the supposed "new shilling", a 17% loss in Bazooka Joes. To emphasise the scale of consumer rip off thats 40 less to the £.

I think it was the 60's sometime but I don't really know, it was before my time.

Is that all?
ones i know....
Blair
Andy
Me
Nick
pearl white one
one mentioned here
Blk one i saw this morning

thats seven already and must be a fair few more?

Barnacle, you forgot 40 perches to a rood and 4 roods to an acre.

Being a Yachtie, we still talk in Nautical Miles, being 6080 feet. Of course, one minute of Latitude is also a NM and hence there is no scale of distance on an Admiralty Chart.