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Subject: Re: OT: Converting miles/km
From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder)
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Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 09:05:30 +0100
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Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:

> On 01/03/25 20:36, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> > Kerr-Mudd, John <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:40:44 +0100 Phil <phil@anonymous.invalid>
> >> wrote:
> > [-]
> >>> I was more than a little surprised, just this morning, to find
> >>> that in my local branch of Halfords, for a mere £3.99, I can buy
> >>> a handy guide to stick on my windscreen:
> >>>
> >>> <https://www.halfords.com/motoring/travel-accessories/travel-equipment/spe
ed
> >
> >>>
> >>>
> right-safety-device-181812.html?stockInventory=undefined>
> >>>
> >>> I can't help wondering who, in the 21st century, is expected to
> >>> buy this "safety device".
> >>
> >> Classic cars without dual display?
> >>>
> >> But requiring scriptytosh to view the website is standard.
> >
> > You can still buy new speedometers with a single display, for
> > classic cars. It proves how classic they are.
> >
> > OTOH, most new cars sold in Europe have single scale speedometers.
> > It is the dual scale things which have become classic. Even the new
> > Minis have a single scale, kilometers only, (don't know about Minis
> > sold in Britain)
> 
> I have never seen an Australian car with a dual mph/km/h display. I
> presume that the dual display is confined to countries who started to
> transition to metric and never finished the job. A bit like the idiot
> who said he had a solution to end a war but forgot to invite one of the
> parties to the negotiations.
> 
> Does any country other than the UK have dual-display speedos?

Of course, many of them. Cars were also produced for export,
and many of those that were exported in quantity had dual displays,
to save on inventory. (think big Volvo stations, VW beetles, etc.)
Those duals mostly disappeared, because
the remaining American market isn't worth the trouble,

Jan