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garinda · 30-01-2006, 17:26

We can't really bame the EEC for metrification. It was Harold Wilson's Labour Government of 1965 that started a ten year plan for Britain to go metric. This really started in 1971, with the introduction of decimal coinage.

We didn't join the then Common Market until 1973, after we voted to join following a referendum.

30-01-2006, 17:26	#11
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