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1974 Dolomite Sprint
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Re: 1974 Dolomite Sprint
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Re: 1974 Dolomite Sprint
Didn't the yanks go metric? I thought they did after years of using the wrong versions of Imperial. They didn't even know how big an inch was ffs, let alone a gallon.
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Re: 1974 Dolomite Sprint
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Re: 1974 Dolomite Sprint
Map of all countries in the world that don't use metric in everyday life:
NB septic inches are the same as British codger ones. It's mainly the fluid measurements & suchlike that the colonials had problems with.
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Re: 1974 Dolomite Sprint
On some maps the UK is differently coloured because we still use some imperial left-overs. But otherwise we're essentially metric.
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Re: 1974 Dolomite Sprint
I'm sure I've read the Merlin didn't work when the yanks first built it as they used the wrong inches so the clearances were wrong?
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Re: 1974 Dolomite Sprint
Nope, not that I've heard. And as I said, septics use the same inch as the British did.
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Re: 1974 Dolomite Sprint
My understanding is that Rolls Royce relied upon manual fettling to get it to fit together properly whereas Ford went down the mass production route and had to change things as a result.