Dear Jim: John Frewen-Lord here, and, as you may already know, new chairman of the UKMA. In the last few weeks I have sent out letters to many organisations in the UK, some similar to the MAPI (e.g. Confederation of British Industry), the EEF (a manufacturer's association) as well as our National Measurement Office (equivalent I guess to NIST in at least some respects), etc, and got back replies from them. The replies are abysmal - I asked them all some very pertinent questions as to their views on whether the UK's failure to complete metrication was having an adverse effect of the UK's GDP, especially its export performance (something that CBI is pushing very hard right now). All, without exception, skirted and evaded the issues, trotted out the standard party line, to the point that it was very obvious that answering my questions directly would have exposed them to their failure to push for completion of metrication. The letter from the NMO was in fact a disgrace, to the point that I wonder why we even have an NMO. This is why I am particularly interested in what comes from MAPI. Some positive response there might just help me make progress here in the UK. Best regards John -----Original Message----- From: James Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 7:39 PM To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:53503] Re: SI metric Dear Robert, I"m glad that you had the opportunity to speak with Cliff Waldman, the Council Director and Senior Economist of the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI), yesterday. Hopefully he was receptive to your points in that conversation. It would be very nice to find that this induces MAPI to push for metrication. Well done! Best regards, Jim On 2014-01-08 13:28, Robert H. Bushnell wrote:

2014 Jan 8 Dear Mr. Waldman, It was good to talk with you yesterday. I hope you can inform me (and the metric community) about why the US has not finished removing use of inch-pound units from every day life and from all manufacturing as well as the use of inch-pound units by manufacturers, who are already using millimeters, talking to the public. US use of inches is a substantial problem and expense in international commerce. It is said that the US is half way to using SI metric. Is this true? MAPI may know better than anyone. With a one trillion dollar per year loss in the GDP, this is serious. K-12 schools make a big part of this loss. I hope you can help. How can I help you? Robert H. Bushnell PhD PE 502 Ord Drive Boulder CO 80303-4732 roberthb...@comcast.net <mailto:roberthb...@comcast.net> 303-554-0728

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