STANDARDISATION

Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 9

STANDARDISATION

VALUABLE REPORT

(British Official Wlrelesi.) RUGBY, 7th November. Several reports on less controversial subjects aro ready for submission to the heads of delegations to the Imperial Conference. These include that of the Committee on Standardisation, in preparing which industrial experts have assisted technicians attached to the delegations. The report deals with units of measurement and with industrial standardisation. The units' in question include the yard aud pound as well as electrical standards like ohm and volt. The report recommends that each Dominion and, India should be provided with a reference standard of each unit of measurement, to be compared regularly with the originals. .' : . .. The second part of the reporfc recognises the value'of standardisation as: a means to economy and to efficiency in the interests alike of producers and consumers. It urges the setting1 up of a central standardising body in any Dominion where it does not already exist, and that the central bodies should receive official support financially through Government purchasing departments and otherwise. The, report recommends regular and systematic consultation between the various parts of the Empire, with a view to establishing '.uniform, standard specifications. The- issue by each standardising body of a mark or brand to' be applied under licence is recommended. The great need is stressed of simplification by a reduction of the variety of sizes, dimensions and immaterial differences, in everyday commodities ;with the object of eliminating waste and reducing cost of production.