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Volume 76, Issue 5
1 May 1976
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Review Article| May 01 1976

THE METRICATION MUDDLE Available to Purchase

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Online ISSN: 3049-5946
Print ISSN: 0007-6929
© MCB UP Limited
1976
Industrial Management (1976) 76 (5): 7–11.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb056628

Metrication Board chief, Lord Orr‐Ewing, talks to Industrial Management about his fight against inertia and downright hostility in the metric conversion programme. The longer the delay, he says, the greater the cost to industry. Report by Alec Snobel.

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