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NUT AND BOLT SIZES

Britain To Adopt Metric System

(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.)

LONDON, November 25.

The traditional nut and bolt, designed 100 years ago by Sir Joseph Whitworth’, has been declared obsolete. All nuts and bolts manufactured in Britain will have metric thread sizes.

Eighty representatives of industry, men from the Ministry of Technology and the British Standards Institute met in Mayfair to sign the end of the Whitworth B.A. (British Association) and B.S.F- (British Standard Fine) threads based on the inch.

Sir Anthony Bowl by, chairman of the 8.5.1. general council, said: “It would be suicidal to stick to thread systems, excellent though they are, which are no longer recognised by any other country in the world. Sir Joseph Whitworth was the first man in the world to standardise screw threads. Unfortunately he is now the odd man out.”

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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30919, 27 November 1965, Page 21

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NUT AND BOLT SIZES Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30919, 27 November 1965, Page 21

NUT AND BOLT SIZES Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30919, 27 November 1965, Page 21