Edinburgh Ironworks  Letter to Engineers by Nigel Downs  7th
January, Web-Site is being overhauled with all new Gallery pages
and other content  To the Engineers of Britain, 2000  As greater
pressure grows to join the EC monetary group, we as an iron
foundry...... www.hdowns.co.uk.........suffer.  People such as
Lord Hanson rightly say that Germany, at the height of the
Deutche Marks' rise, were still able to sell more Mercedes than
ever before.......Why?  They had the quality, the faith and the
determination. They went out to sell their products.  We in
Britain have the quality advantage over the other Europeans who
are tied to metrication.  Millimetres and microns are good, but
what are the metric equivalents to the good old British
measurements of smidgin, cock hair or gnats' knacker?  These
areimmeasurable in foreign climes and provide exact fits.  To
ensure these ultra fine tolerances, one could remove a tad, a
touch, a whisper, or a whisker to give a fit beyond question.
You could tickle it or freeten