Cheers to prosperity under metrication

By Dominic Bentham Dominic Bentham 2005-05-03T00:00:00

Would you specify a guillotine? This hard-hitting advertisement for the ‘Newedge No-gap’ door rail from William Newman & Sons was published in our May 1965 edition

In the May 1965 Glass Age it was reported that the majority of British industry favoured the adoption of the metric system. Sir Peter Runge, President of the Federation of British Industries, had written to the President of the Board of Trade and the Minister of Technology urging early and ...

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