On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 15:31:05 UTC+1, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
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newshound writes:

On 12/08/2014 13:49, whisky-dave wrote:


Anyone see this yesterday.


oldish story it seems.



http://www.totalelectricaltraining.c...lations-seized



Why would they bother using fake figures, why don;t they just photocopy the genuine product and then fake it, all seems rather strange to me.



or start with an electronic copy.

I bet they'd charge more for that. ;-)




It's an example of a publication which is way over-priced and effectively
holds electricians to ransom by being single-sourced, so it's a prime
target for a forgery, as IET/BS effectively make it so lucrative to do so..

I agree they said it cost £80 a copy.


One error was that the tables indicated you needed 35mm trunking whioch isn;t made in 35mm sizes, perhapos it meant 32mm.

And also the on-site guide, it seems.



Apparently genuine logarithm tables used to contain deliberate errors,
to trap forgers; and OS maps include things which are not there.


I heard that in certain areas sich as docks german spies had submitted moire detailed maps to the Gernams than the OS maps did to our maps.