Brussels steps up pressure to seek firm date for full conversion to metric system

The United Kingdom is coming under pressure from the European Union to indicate when it will honour its 25-year old promise to fully convert to the metric system of measurement, converting miles to kilometres and pints to litres.

United Kingdom: Department of Trade and Industry: Consumer & Competition Policy: Metrication http://www.dti.gov.uk/ccp/topics1/metric.htm

UK Metric Association: Homepage http://www.metric.org.uk/

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