Imperial measurements have poetry. Metric has no soul.
12 inch in a foot
3 feet in a yard
5 1/2 yards in a rod / perch / pole
22 yards or 4 rods in a chain
10 chains in a furlong
8 furlongs in a mile

Or
16 drachams in an ounce
16 ounces ina pound.
14 pounds in a stone
2 stone in a quarter
8 stone ( 4 quarters) in a hundredweight
20 hundredweight one ton

Then for dry volume
2 gallons = one peck
4 pecks = 1 bushel

You know it makes sense.

Metric is boring

I’ve seen lot of road signs now using strange values – e.g. Bends for 428 yards whereas before it might have said bends for 1/4 mile. I did wonder of this was to enable easier conversion in the future.

What happened was that a few local councils who thought they knew better started putting up signs in metres, folk spotted it and pointed out that this was illegal and made them switch back. It’s cheaper to replace the sign rather than put a new pole up as well a few dozen yards away so you get an odd number where metres have been converted to yards.

TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR – Member

My Mazda 6 (’53 plate) used to measure in l/100km

Are you absolutely sure, or was it an import?

Mine is a 56 plate and as per my previous post reads litres/100 miles

Not 100%, so could be wrong – thought it was though.

I’ve found the real sickener is working out miles per £££ mini cab style. I’m spending around 50p a mile at the mo.