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Roland Perry · December 30th 11, 07:25 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 19:17:28
on Thu, 29 Dec 2011, remarked:
People are still weighed in stone, with 1 stone equalling 14 pounds.

It depends where you're looking. The NHS has been into kilos since at
least when my elder daughter was born in 1986.

I don't recall ever having domestic scales in stone (always pounds),
but perhaps those huge coin-in-the-slot ones in public places were
stones and pounds. The growth charts my children had in the early
90's (they were weighed regularly and the results put in a little red
folder) from the NHS were bi-lingual, in both Kg and Lbs.

I have never yet seen a pounds only scale for weighing people in the UK.

I think we had some USA-made bathroom scales which were pounds-only, but
the current ones are switchable to Kilos as well.

An electronic "bathroom scales" we bought recently for home use shows either
kilos or stones and pounds. The scales where I get weighed regularly at
Addenbrookes only shows kilos.

Often there's a conversion chart on the wall so they can tell oldies
what their "real" weight is.
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Roland Perry