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On Mar 19, 12:13*pm, "Dave Plowman (News)"
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In article ,
* *The Medway Handyman wrote:

On 18/03/2012 12:58, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In ,
* * The Medway *wrote:
Distance between fixing centres? 91.5cm. *Divide by 2 = 47.75cm! *FFS
why not just make it 92 cm? *Or 90cm?


Because it's actually an imperial dimension? 36 inches?


We went metric in 1973 :-)


'We' may have done, but not necessarily the rest of the world. Where this
may have been made.

FWIW, electronic stuff is based on inches to the base 10,


It might have been in the dark ages.

MBQ