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Old Mar 3rd, 2013, 15:25   #25
DaveNP
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Originally Posted by m0bzy View Post
I once had a late night call from the Ford Motor company asking me to arrange collection of a shipmant from Heathrow for Halewood,the dimensions were given in cm's,the size was such that our little 35cwt was to small,so a 7.5 tonner was found and the driver dragged from the arms of his wife.He later phoned to ask if I had finally lost it,as the package would fit in his cab!!,between Detroit and Colnbrook the size had converted from mm's to cm's,could not have happened with ' or ".
This is exactly the sort of situation I was thinking of with my earlier post, how did the muppet at Ford not realise an object small enough to fit in the cab would not have dimensions larger than a van?
mm, cm, inch or foot, what happened to the concept of size?
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