[Tig] OT symbol for camera
Mikko Kuutti
mikko.kuutti at sea.fi
Mon Apr 7 02:42:44 PDT 2008
Just think about the confusion that the staged transition to right-
hand driving in Sweden in the 1960s must have caused. I have been told
that to ease the change, heavy traffic switched first.
Mikko
Mikko Kuutti
Deputy Director
National Audiovisual Archive (former Finnish Film Archive)
Pursimiehenkatu 29-31 A / P.O. Box 177, FI-00151 Helsinki, Finland
tel. +358 9 6154 0254, mobile +358 40 900 0455
On 7.4.2008, at 3.05, Dominic Case wrote:
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>> "think metric, speed limit 65kph"
>
> When touring SW Ireland a few years ago, I discovered that the far
> SW corner
> was still unremittingly calibrated in miles, but there was a
> tendency to use
> metric signs in the less remote parts of the country. That's on both
> signposts and speed signs.
>
> However, I never saw any units on the speed limit signs, and in many
> parts
> of the country both varieties of sign were in use. I guessed "30"
> was mph
> (though not achievable on some of the twistier roads), and "100" was
> a safe
> guess to be kph. But a few "50" signs were confusing.
>
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