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Group which lobbies and promotes English/imperial weights and measures, and opposes compulsory conversion to the metric system. Includes news, position papers about the history of metrication and its impact on consumers and merchants, discussion forum, and related links.
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BWMA/British Weights and Measures Association A exists to protect and promote British weights and measures, and to oppose compulsory use of the metric system. To join the resistance, click here. Metric Judgement in Crisis Following the launch of the Parking Ticket campaign, official advice provided...Criticizes metrication as globalist and un-American; provides arguments for the superiority of the English-American system over the metric and links to related sites.
http://www.freedom2measure.org/
Opposes compulsory adoption of the metric system in Britain; online petition and a collection of news and opinion articles.
http://www.savethepint.com/
Column by neoconservative columnist Jonah Goldberg on Tesco's decision to restore imperial weights and measures, and on metrication as an ideological tool of the EU and WTO.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah080100.asp
Criticizes Canada's imposition of metric measurements on its aboriginal peoples.
http://members.tripod.com/~siams_canada/
History, current usage, and listing of units and conversions; comparison of English and American measurements; descriptions of collectible weights; external links and anti-metrication resources.
http://home.clara.net/brianp/
Provides general articles, membership information, sponsors, and newsletter archives of the BWMA.
http://users.aol.com/footrule/
An interview with University of Queensland professor Arthur Marcel on the advantages of the imperial method of measurement over the metric, and on the failures of the metric system in Australia.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s11563.htm
An assortment of articles asserting the superiority of British weights and measures to the French decimal system, including nineteenth century sources.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/estatopia/inch.htm