3 SEPTEMBER 1910, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIE,—In your last issue

a correspondent infers that the British inch is insignificant compared with the millimetre. Probably your readers are aware that there is sitting in London an Engineering Standards Committee composed of the best men in all branches of British engineering, and doing most excellent work. All their standardising is being done on the British inch, after giving careful consideration to the claims of the millimetre. We would rather be guided by the engineers and the manufacturers who have made England the great industrial power she is, and who intend to keep her so, than by armehair metrologists.—I am, Sir, &c., GEO. Mooses, Secretary.

British Weights and Measures Association„ 46a, Market Street, Manchester.