Hello Björn!

17 Jul 17 16:39, you wrote to mark lewis:

 BF>    What I find interesting is that the USA was eager to have their
 BF> Independence War to get separated from Great Britain, but once they got
 BF> it, they hung on to a lot of GB specific things like measurements -- but
 BF> even changed them. A US ounce is not equal to a UK ditto and neither is a
 BF> US gallon. Yeah, well, USA surely is a very interesting conglomerate of
 BF> people and ideas.  8-)

 I particularly like the measurement of oil production in barrels/day.
 Now I wonder how many barrels could be loaded on a waggon, so I can express
 the size of an oilcarrier (ship) as a number of waggon loads.

Kees

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