Grams To Ounces

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31256, 31 December 1966, Page 5

Grams To Ounces

rpWO devices for coping with A the metric system until such time as Britain finally goes metric and changes her weights and measures, were described in the 8.8. C. senes “New Ideas.” First, Allan Murray reported on a new micrometer for designers and engineers who have to grapple withi the differences between inches and centimetres. “The Anglometric. as it’s called, gives a dual reading—and very accurately. This precision job from Shardlow Micrometers, Ltd., Sheffield, the first instrument of its kind in the world, is easily road to within one-hund’redth-of-a-millimetre, or four-ten-thousands - of-an-inch. which cuts out the need to use either conversion tables or two instruments calibrated on the English and metric scales—so long, of course, as both systems of measurement are in common use. Murray then went on to describe the new Continental cookery stale made by G Sab ter and Company of West Bromwich, Staffordshire,

which is of particular interest to shopkeepers and housewives. "The cookery scale has a dial marked in both English and metric measures. The plastic scoop is easily cleaned. And the flat base sits firmly on a table.

“The big advantage, though, is the dual marking. Many of us who like cooking piek up recipes abroad. I’m sure this is a two-way traffic, and it certainly helps to get the proportions exactly right without having to convert grams into ounces—or vice versa.”