Specs that are part English and part metric
F. George McDuffee wrote:
I was told that this resulted from the "Marshal Plan" where many
surplus US [inch] machine tools were shipped to Europe after WW2.
LOL! Marshall, not Marshal. And the flow of tools was quite the other
direction.
At that time, everyone no longer thought about making imperial threads.
That "confusion" has ended decades before. At least in Germany.
Nick
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