WIRE-ROPE MEASURES
Change To Metric
A complete change to metric standards for wire ropes in New Zealand, will be accomplished within three years under a programme announced yesterday by the director of the Standards Association (Mr G. H. Edwards). Under the programme, which has been approved by the Metric Advisory Board, new metric standards for wire ropes will come into use early next year, and the main manufacturing change will occur about the middle of 1971. The old standards in Inch units will be withdrawn by early 1973. Mr Edwards said that many of the common sizes now in use are interchangeable with metric sizes and will therefore be virtually indistinguishable. Changes in wire rope constructions and tensile ranges under the new standards will be important, but not radical, he said.
“For most users the change will cause only minor problems,” said Mr Edwards.
Banana Cargo. The French motor-vessel Amal-1 thee arrived at Lyttelton from Ecuador on Wednesday morning with 24,000 cartons of Ecuadorian bananas for local discharge.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32351, 17 July 1970, Page 4
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